April 11, 2022 — Transportation Advisory Board Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:03] Go sideways. Good evening are we recording we have people in on the waiting room. Yes, we're recording and people have been led in. Their refund, I am calling the April 2022 meeting of the transportation Advisory Board for the CU boulder to order welcome everyone, and thank you for joining us. We are going to. move right into the approval of the March 2022 minutes before we welcome our new members new members, since you weren't here last time we're it's just going to be. A small vote among the Members here who who were here at the last meeting I did note that I have sent some small corrections to our Secretary.

[1:10] and forget exactly what they were. And I know that I changed a word from insufficient to deficient when we were discussing one of the tab the tip grant opportunities. Oh sorry we should do the the rules first i'm little scattered this evening sorry um, let me just state these since i've already started on this, the changes for their for the for the Minutes. So to let other Members kind of talk about them and then we will do our rules and regulations about online meetings and then we'll move to privilege minutes. Insufficient to deficient. There was a transit on demand that should have been transit oriented design, when we were discussing elements with the planning board and then there was a third minor you know, and that that kind of typo related meredith can you remind me with that third one was.

[2:09] Yes, i'm coming down to this is supposed to be. displaying. It is yes, you were doing it. Okay it's this one i'm not a backup. backup of our heads. up her yes, so those those minor revisions, so I will let that percolate well I back up again, I need to write this stuff down for myself mess this up every time but. Veronica sun is going to be our technical host for the evening and I would like to turn it over to her for the moment to remind everyone. I think we are mostly old hats at this, but there are a few new names I see joining and so just to remind us how we're going to be operating this meeting this evening on our virtual platform. All right, can you guys see my screen yes perfect well thanks Tila hello, my name is Veronica sun and i'll be your technical host for tonight.

[3:08] Thank you all for joining, and I will be reading a few housekeeping rules. This meeting has been called to conduct the business of the city of boulder activities that disrupt delay or otherwise interfere with the meetings are prohibited. The time for speaking or asking questions will be limited to three minutes, no person shall speak except one recognized by myself and no person shall speak for longer than the given three minutes each person shall register to speak in. The meeting. using their real name any person believed to be using a name, other than the one they are commonly known by will not permit it will not be permitted to speak up a meeting, if you are on the phone, you need to press star six to unmute and star nine to raise your hand. And then, no video will be permitted, except for city officials employees and invited speakers all others will participate by voice only.

[4:05] I will be enforcing these rules by meeting, anyone who violates them and the chat function is enabled for tonight's meeting, and it will be used for individuals to communicate with myself. It should be used for technical and online platform related questions only if. If an attendee attempts to use the chat for any other reason the city reserves the right to disable the individuals access to the chat only the host and individuals doesn't need it by to host will be permitted to share their screens, thank you. Thank you Veronica sorry I skipped over you. Okay. All right, um with that I will turn back to a consideration of the Minutes from the last meeting Brian and Alex do you have any further any objections to the corrections that I have requested or any further corrections and our amendments to the draft Alex the bottom you.

[5:03] Know i'll move it we move to amend to approve the Minutes so i'm. Very good. Thank you Ryan. All their Minutes are approved, thank you very much. Next, on our agenda is. Recognizing and introducing our new tab Members, however, I am going to pause here as we. Unfortunately, have to do with some regularity to recognize I think i'm frankly a more important order of business, which is over the past several days, we have had another series of. hi injury and a fatal crash we've had at least. Three four members of the Community. injured and another killed in two separate incidents in the last few days, various air sections on foothills highway.

[6:02] As usual, we don't have very many details at this point. police investigation continues i've, of course, been vocal about that, I would like to to learn more as events proceed but. I. continue to struggle to make sure that our Community doesn't treat these as statistics and numbers and something to be crunched. In an annual report or bi annual report, but to note, every time that our transportation system is failing real human beings and injuring real human beings, we will of course later on this evening hear from staff about their plans on the Court arterial network. To address some of the more dangerous roadways that we have, but nevertheless. we're at another uncomfortable juncture where members of our community are suffering injured and debt because of.

[7:00] issues with our transportation network in our failures to keep them safe and when I can like I name names, I have no names to share with you this evening, but I did want to note. At the top of our meeting because it is the most important thing that we do to ensure the safety of our fellow citizens and residents and visitors and everyone out on our roadways. Thank you Erica for keeping us. informed and apprised, as you can. You know I know that you take this seriously, you know that I take this seriously and I would at this point, reiterate my request at the last two meetings to have the police department come and interact with us more frequently, because these incidents are distressingly frequent and. need to be more top of mind, I think, for all city agencies. kayla. Is Erica. Thank you, I just wanted to have the Chair recognize me so thank you.

[8:04] So just to I guess reiterate what you said, we took a staff level are saddened by these crashes, and the injuries and. The death and it's certainly not anything that we would ever want to have to share, not only with you, but with the Community, and I think that you know we strive very hard to be able to have all of us do here in this virtual room and beyond, to. strive to reach our Vision Zero goal and so whenever that goal is not attained it truly impacts us also from the heart with regard to your question about the police. Providing a report and so forth, I believe, I want to say it, like in that June tab meeting that we have tentatively, you know looking to schedule, but I will confirm that. With the folks in the PD they've recent had recently had some changeover in their key staff in this arena so we're working on that together so just wanted to let you know we are being responsive as an entire city organization.

[9:15] They garrick I appreciate that. Do any other Members have to have one and weigh in on this at this moment. I think this is another frequent reminder of articles are killing our Community. And when we look at where we've started with our team P goals and how far we have to go over we're closer to square one, and that finish line and so as we bring on some new members and for those of us who've been around for a while we are a reminder that we have so much work to do. Thanks Alex. He yeah because in zero has eluded us for this year.

[10:02] All right, well on that note, I mean I didn't mean to make it a bummer for you, but. It is important it's important to note, and I think that we are in agreement that it needs to be noted sort of at the top of the meeting, because it should be at the top of what we think about what we do. Turning now to our new Members, I would really like to welcome 20 religion and Rebecca Davies, to the board, I am going to turn it over to our Secretary matters less get to swear in administer the oath and swear in our new members. Oh, thank you. Oh, I. Believe each for ready. To read they're open to the record and Tony if you want to go ahead and I think for on and will display that for everyone to see.

[11:03] Oh you're muted to another thing that you. Thank you so much So yes, I will begin I Maria training wilton do solemnly swear. That I will support the constitution of the United States and the state of Colorado and the Charter and ordinances of the city of boulder and faithfully perform the duties of the office of a member of transport, the transportation Advisory Board, which I am about to enter. Thank you. and your will be up shortly here Rebecca. Alex put his hand up did you want to comment on. That. Okay. there's the clap icon. Oh, it was a clap icon I think you. Should I go ahead. Sure, thank you. um I Rebecca Davies do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States of America and the state of Colorado and the Charter and ordinances of the city of boulder.

[12:08] and faithfully perform the duties of the office i'm a member of the transportation Advisory Board, which I am about to enter. Thank you. Thank you, well done and welcome YouTube it's a pleasure to have you aboard I saw Ryan do the literal clap emoji earlier. we're very pleased to have you aboard. Alright, so now that we have five people seated and two new Members, we should move on to the election of officers and and shuffle the officer deck. I was busy day and forgot to look up my protocol, but. I believe, will we will be doing is accepting. nominations for.

[13:01] The office of chair first and then vice chair and then Secretary. or any any member of the board is able to nominate any person, but let us start with nominations for for chair for this next year for 2022 to 2023 year. Right and having hand up. To you, I would like to nominate my colleague Mr Alex wine hammer for chair. And this is where I was supposed to do my homework if a second is required, I second that nomination. sure. Thank you, we have a nomination for Alex wine hammer for Chair there any further nominations. I like to nominate Ryan for cheer. Pretty reluctant nominates Ryan for chairs there a second. Nomination fails.

[14:05] Any further nominations for chair. way to read the tea leaves Well done, shall we proceed for the vote. For a chair for the transportation Advisory Board for 2022 to 2023 all in favor of Alex wine hammer as chair, please raise your hand virtually or on your screen, I see five years the years have it Alex yea year the new chair. Congratulations, and thank you um here's the second time i'm like I should have looked this up, should I continue. Or would you like to Alex to take over with the rest of the elections. Over. meredith yes, do you have any guidance for us. I will say that Alex can assume chairing the. Excellent well done Alex assume chairmanships or.

[15:01] Thanks for. Thank you last two years, I will open up for nominations, the position of Vice chair. I would like to nominate Ryan Shanghai for dice church. Second, the nomination. ran for vice chair show of hands. five votes congrats Ryan. And finally, our board Secretary and all open that for nominations and i'll hop in here and nominate meredith slutsky to continue on and the capacity that she has for so long as i've been around and done a fantastic job. i'll second that sooner than she can decline.

[16:01] All of those in favor of that meredith be our Secretary. Another unanimous 500. Thank you. Alright, thanks everyone we'll move to public comment now or members of the public will be able to speak for up to three minutes on any transportation topic later this evening will be discussing. The pintail in whittier and SMP projects if you're here to speak about the neighborhood speed management program project will hold a public hearing specifically for that. After public comment so public comment again just just folks talking about things other than the complex and SMP project so that use the raise hand feature if you're interested in speaking during public comment and someone from the city will pull up the timer to facilitate that.

[17:01] See veronica's here. Yes, I am here now okay awesome just a reminder, you need to have your first and last name to be able to speak and it looks like Lynn is gonna be the first one to speak today i'm gonna unmute you, and then the three minute timer so. I want my. Video my video video my video my video they do it in Denver, that the capital they can we can do it in boulder we can do it, yes, yes Alex so glad you're the Chair rocks better than President of the United States you're President of tab you rock yay. So good I can't believe my good fortune and However, what we need to do that's preventative is stop see you sell and you need to have a say. On what this is going to do to your budget if we go for see yourself.

[18:02] And i'm also finding I can't remember last because I ride all over I saw to London bridge the other day after the Conference on wheels affairs, but there are impediments and I keep on running into construction impediments, but one thing so. that's another problem, have you. heard some people, for example. opposite. Marshall fire. 10 years you know it's. No. standard. Is not it's just not feasible, with the kind of growth that we're experiencing in the suit in the in the wealth.

[19:01] And that's the thing. The transportation. Is people have to go further to the open space. Because they're out on the plains. And where it's $1,000 per commercial in Florida. You know and they're just driving in and out of boulder and increasing the congestion here, so we need to follow line folks. And play small not up bigger. older and older and and and we need this, you know PR capital impact the basically an impact be for every development that happens here, because you are the board that gets affected directly. With this, and you know, and I ride my bike I drive my car twice a year, you know, so I appreciate that but, but I need.

[20:04] To get around not have trails just ending subtly because they narrowed down to nothing you know, like i'm in South boulder when i'm going down to examine the Marshal fire. And boy suddenly my my trail is gone and I have to cross to highway on my bike and you know the cell phone thanks bye. Thanks. It looks like Michelle boyd has expressed interest in this chat that she would like to speak, would it possible to unmute her. hi guys. Thanks for letting me chat for a minute I have been in boulder for 25 years and we moved out to the county from the city. And learned out about all the problems that they have with the roads out there and unincorporated boulder county. But what i'm really surprised about, and the reason I wanted to come on this call today is that i'm really not.

[21:05] sure why our roads are such a disaster, compared to every town around us like I don't understand, and is it this board's responsibility is there, somebody else I need to talk to. Is it like who does this responsibility fall on. Because I get it in the county that's a whole other myriad of a mess of an issue that I fully understand because we're very involved in that initiative, but I do not understand it at all in the city when like mohawk drive a major artery. off baseline literally like you need a four wheel drive to get down that road. out by CREST view like I don't even understand what's going on with the major arteries surrounding our public schools and I don't understand why they look so terrible within the city limits like I don't. I just I lived here for so long and just dealt with it moved out to the county and thought, maybe it would get better.

[22:01] And then learned all about all those issues and i'm considering moving back into the city. Because of strictly the roads issues that are present in the county and for Homeowners like who will never have the roads repaved ever again it's a huge issue for our home values. So I came into the city hoping, this will change and I guess I just like to hear from you and I don't know if you respond to public comment because I don't have a whole lot else to say with my three minutes, but I just. I don't know if you respond to public comment but I I don't know how to just get that question answer because I still don't understand, after having lived here for. 20 years why our roads. Compared to lewisville broomfield erie all of these rounds of towns around us that have so much more money roads look their bones look amazing ours just look. So I guess I just don't understand as a citizen who hasn't been involved with the city roads at all. um and i'd love to to understand that more and get involved if there's anything we can do it, I just don't know but it feels very paralyzing when you drive around on roads that feel like you need a four wheel drive around.

[23:09] drive around our city roads and then, at the same time, you see massive amounts of money pouring in in the form of sales tax to 29 street and commercial developments and you kind of wonder where that money is going and why it isn't going into our internal infrastructure and road system. So thanks Michelle it sounded like there were some questions in there would anyone from staff like to address them. just very briefly that yeah as we go through, and you know provide highlights and briefings to tab we can certainly you know talk about. Our pavement management condition and the factors that go into it, as well as the funding and the gap between the two, so at a future date we'd be very happy to respond.

[24:00] Thanks Erica. I think, Michelle we all bear some responsibility for it. we've linked our transportation spending with our sales tax, which is reducing and the cost of construction is increasing and so. it's for us to improve the quality of our roads will need to work with with Council to create a new funding mechanism to if we want to maintain roads at a at a higher standard. else can I can I say something. yeah I. just wanted to acknowledge Michelle and say thanks, we do here you are listening so i'm a member of tab. And you know I asked this question sort of sometimes it's horribly about multimodal infrastructure and how is it was such a wealthy city and we can't get you know, a grid of protected bike ways. And I so it's something that it's a question of resources and what explains the gap and such a wealthy place that i'm also very interested in and. need to do further work myself on and anyway just want to say appreciate hear you and appreciate that question, and would be willing to step further and huge.

[25:05] Thanks Ryan. Funding is something that we often talk about and and and hope to increase that pool of money sooner than later. Is there anyone else interested in speaking at the public hearing or will. it be time to move on to our first agenda item. i'm not seeing any hands so next up, we will have a public hearing on the neighborhood speed management program complex projects in the whittier neighborhood which includes pine street. We will begin with a presentation from staff or hopefully they provide a good amount of background information and answer some of the questions that people might have. That members of the Board will be able to ask clarifying questions will then open things up to a public sharing where members of the public will have up to three minutes to provide input on this project. And then tablo move on to our deliberation, so I see a presentation has popped up, so I assume someone from staffers is ready to go.

[26:09] Yes, ready to go. Welcome anything. Well, thank you, thank you so much Alex and good evening. My name is Nathan Pope i'm a new senior transportation planner with transportation and mobility and i'm here to present on the whittier complex neighborhood speed management program project. The attention of bringing this project to tab this evening is to solicit feedback and finalize the design for the project so that it is ready, once funds to construct a project become available. As we do have some new faces a quick reminder that the neighborhood speed management program, also known as the SNP. was established back in 2017 to address speeding issues on local and collector neighborhood streets. The purpose of the SMP is to support the Community safety and neighborhood livability goals as outlined in the transportation masterplan. The program also supports boulders Vision Zero goals by proactively, reducing the risk of severe crashes and improving bicycle and pedestrian comfort through the redux through reducing vehicle speeds on neighborhood streets.

[27:11] The what are your neighborhood speed management program project that we're looking at this evening combines three streets ableton pine and spruce between each between 20th and 28 street, as you can see, on this map this map was will be referencing throughout the presentation. And then going into the project timeline this was the top project in the 2019 and SMP project cycle and was prioritized for planning and 2021 and installation in 2022. However, due to the coven 19 pandemic and subsequent impacts, to the department's budget, the project was postponed. Staff did initiate the project in the summer of 2021 with a quarter analysis and to public open houses. The third and final public open house was held last month to present the concept design to the Community and collect feedback today we're bringing that concept design to tab for a public hearing and recommendation. The detailed design and construction phase of the project or on indefinite hold as the SNP resources and funding are repurposed on Council direction to focus on arterial streets and the can which will hear about in the next presentation.

[28:11] So for this project, we began by collecting data and conducting an analysis of crashes traffic speed and traffic volumes. We then engage neighborhood residents to understand the local issues and the concerns and to collect Community preferences on different designed treatments, we then created a concept design, where we match those proposed design treatments, to the identified problems. Through our data collection, we saw a significant number of speeding vehicles on each street this map shows the percentage of equal speeding on each street. With ableton and spruce having a speed limit of 20 miles per hour and pine street there in the middle, having a speed limit of 25 miles per hour. We also look the crashes, thankfully, there was no known fatalities in the five years of data we looked at, but there were some severe injuries and those were particularly located at the intersections.

[29:04] With this data in hand, we held our first Community event in the whittier school yard, in August 2021 where we reviewed the existing conditions and discuss traffic safety issues in the neighborhood. A second neighborhood meeting was held virtually in December 21 2021 to review traffic calming options based on stakeholder and Community engagement, where we asked residence for feedback on the potential options in different locations. We as Community Members about several travel communes treatments, including speed bumps and speakerphones traffic circles, with a brand's raised intersections but estrogen refuge islands curb extensions and high visibility crosswalks. And across these items we found broad support for each of these traffic calming treatments. So that'll brought us to the design concept and so with consultants support we began development of the whittier complex project recommend the design concept and that's what i'll be sharing with you for the rest of this presentation. So here we're going to go over a high level overview of the design concept and the details can be found in your attachments i'm going to start it ableton and then go down to pine and then spruce.

[30:06] Starting with maple 10 at the top of your screen and going west to east, we started with an existing speed hump here between 21st and 20 seconds. Then further east, the concept design adds an apron to the existing traffic circle at 23rd street and to new speed humps between 24th and folsom and between 26 and 27. The concept design also includes. also includes a new heart and Center line at folsom to prevent illegal left turns on to folsom and to slow down turning vehicles entry in the neighborhood. moving down to pine street the concept design has four new speed positions at 22nd 23rd 26 and 27 plus a new apron added to the existing traffic circle. At 23rd street. At whittier elementary we are proposing to add an additional pedestrian refuge island to the West side of this 21st street intersection the concept design also recommends to new pedestrian refuge islands at 26 street.

[31:09] The low stress bike network plan recommends that the buffered bike lanes on pine street east of folsom be extended to the West, the new two foot buffer on this section will be added, will also help to narrow the travel lanes and can be added, without impacting on street parking. moving down to spruce street the design concept recommends to new speed questions on either side of 23rd street. It also sharpens the taper is at the existing refuge islands on 21st street to create the visual narrowing of the road and expectations of slower speeds. When they looked at the West section of spruce street as we anticipate street reconstruction with a new development project plan for the section of space. So total cost of this design concept is approximately $270,000. Overall, this design reflects comments and pulling responses from the second neighborhood meeting and online common form and emergency response and maintenance clearance requirements.

[32:03] The idea is to have regular traffic calming features along each quarter so every several hundred feet people driving encounter I traffic call me feature that reinforces that they should be driving low and even speed. The concept design was presented to the Community at a third and final virtual neighborhood meeting on march 28. The 15 participants who attended were informed of the project background and then review the concept design providing feedback through an online poll. Generally participants felt positive about the design concept 80 to 93% responding that they liked her strongly like the design retreat segment. A question and answer session was held with key staff after the presentation purposes participants voice questions about the use of speed cushions versus speed humps and how the project would be maintained. Several participants also expressed frustration that the s&p and the whittier complex project have been paused and we're interested in an alternative to see the project through detailed design and construction.

[33:00] So looking forward after bringing this design concept to tab this evening we're looking at several options to move the project towards construction. we're exploring working within plan to scheduled maintenance to install certain components of the concept design, particularly the buffered by claims on pine. Also, if and when the neighborhood speed management program restarts this would be a top priority project. quickly, I wanted to mention to other SAP projects that are not part of the video project that are wrapping up construction on a final and final components. We plan to install the permanent chicanes on oakland avenue in the next month and reconfigure locations slightly to the West to better allow driveway access residents. And then on 26th street that project has to final medians that we're going to be added as the last components of those streets and SNP projects shortly as well. So, tonight we are seeking a recommendation from tab to finalize the recommended design of the whittier and SMP complex project so that it can be implemented when funding is available.

[34:03] With that I want to thank all the Community Members who are engaged with this project and now i'd be happy to do my best to answer any of your questions Thank you so much. Thanks Jason so now we're going to questions from tab and I see to your hand up. Thanks Alex I am wondering, the same thing that Community cycles was wondering earlier this week or last week Why are there speed questions, instead of feed humps on spruce. Does are my understanding was this big questions were something that we're putting on critical emergency response routes and they said and I didn't double check that's Bruce in this section is not a car, can you comment on that. Sure, just so everyone's on the same page, we have a speed cushion here on the left and a speed hump on the right, I have a couple of reference, slides if we want to zoom into anything. I think speak Christians function very similar to speed humps but they have those cutouts that allow the emergency vehicles to pass their wheels on either side of that raised area.

[35:07] You know in conversations with the fire department, they requested that speed cushions for for spruce street as well, even though it is not a designated emergency route. The fire department regularly regularly uses the street. I think you know as we move forward with this project into into detail design that's definitely something that we can revisit and have another conversation with the fire department and let them know that speed bumps. Are preferred by Community cycles and we heard that from the Community as well. So sorry, so if we approve. This design you're still saying there's still room to go back and revise it later. Is that what I heard. As we move from the concept design into the the detailed design, we would have that option to move these from speed cushions to speed humps. Okay um I guess my last question on speed cushions was partly with with that letter had alluded to was observing behavior of motor vehicle drivers sort of diverting.

[36:06] I know I drive occasionally in lewisville and where they have speed questions the. profiles is significantly different this what you're showing here on your screen is much more ease and like a lengthy and sort of gradual thing and lewisville those suckers mean business you really slow down. So do you have any evidence on what flavor or profile is be Christian diminishes that driver behavior versus exacerbates that driver behavior or do not have any information on that. I don't think we have any exact. Information on on kind of how the speed cushions affect drivers or if drivers are kind of circle net navigating them I think it's definitely something that we're looking at I don't know I saw Garrett pop up pop up on my screen Gary did you have anything to add to that. yeah there's we have some guidelines that we like to follow, for the record Garrett Slater principal transportation park projects engineer, so we do have some guidelines with respect to what we call.

[37:11] I need to really find a layperson term for this, but the geek term, for it is algebraic grade difference between the normal grade of the road and the. In the grade that's on the hump of the or the or the cushion and that difference we have guidelines about what we like to follow in order to see meaningful speed reduction and so. Sometimes, though, it can be too abrupt as we experienced a few months ago, when we implemented the 55th and 26th and the contractor got the wrong message about the elevation, and so we had to go back and smooth them out so. But we do have general guidelines and we can get into more detail and follow up with you, if you'd like to review that peeler. Thank you very much that's helpful and I did ride the 55th street heat speed humps earlier, I think it was the end of last week, and I think they're operating much better now.

[38:09] Thanks to any more questions from tab. Thank you. yeah thanks up my question is about the intersection of folsom and pine it's the location, with the most. crashes, and the most severe injuries, but it doesn't have any direct treatment and i'm wondering if, like why it doesn't have something or yeah just kind of what what the situation is given it to be the most dangerous intersection in this area. shirt so I believe in and Gary can jump in here there's a separate project ah that project that's going to be Rican reconstructing the signal at that intersection. And folsom is also on the Court real network as one of our primary quarters that will be looking at, so I the, the main reason that we didn't do any interventions, there is there are separate projects that will be looking at that intersection is that right girl.

[39:04] Right, so the main line of folsom we address last year, but the specific intersection treatments, we were exploring some of those concepts. But the the late on implementing them until the traffic signal is installed, because some of those treatments would likely be disrupted, with the installation so once we are able to move forward with that project. Late this year and into next year, we would look at doing some of those other safety improvements as well. Thank you. that's where my line of thinking when we have this location where the majority of the severe crashes are and i've had some. offline conversations with some members of staff who've shared concepts for that location, which included a layout for a protected intersection is a protected intersection treatment at folsom and find something that's still being considered as a part of the age of implementation.

[40:04] Yes, that's correct Alex. awesome. Any more questions from tab before we open the public hearing. Seeing none so now any members of the public, they would like to provide input have. Up to three minutes to. share their thoughts with us and then after that tab will proceed to our celebration. Product, are you going to so if you're interested in speaking use the reactions tool to raise your hand and Veronica if you see any hands raised, please start calling on people. well. i'm not seeing any. Final call to speak at the public hearing.

[41:01] looks like Glenn just brace ran so i'm gonna go ahead, ask her to unmute and start my three minutes. I missed part of this discussion, but it's around whittier. And I wish I could. interact with you because. i'd give up some of my time, but I think you know how i'd probably stand and it's probably the same stand is Alex would take about it and. I guess that these are the outlines of the ideas here on the that i'm seeing on the screen. i'd support all of that and. yeah and whatever protects the citizens most and preserves the. The resources of the transportation Advisory Board and that's what I would go for. and yeah anything slowing slow in traffic and because the most disturbing thing for me going around town is I do I probably avoid any places where there's a lot of traffic and a lot of now fast moving vehicles.

[42:18] That are that are just disturbing to my you know countenance yeah psychologically and so traffic slowing mechanisms would be great and. Any any thing else that you folks proposed sounds good sorry I just had other things in the middle of this, but thanks. there's anyone. anyone else interested in speaking. During the public hearing. not seeing any hands will go ahead and close the public hearing and begin our deliberation.

[43:01] Any tab members have any thoughts on how he wants to proceed in this stalled project. you're you're on mute I think. Thank you, I hit unmute and it didn't take. It seems like the basic question is, does it have sign off on this or not. And it to the extent that we might have some you know nitpicks on particular choices, here it doesn't much matter is scientific if it ever gets funded there's going to be another round of. Thinking about it and, like vetting the design work, and so it doesn't feel like a particularly good use of a public hearing to me. um. So I suppose it would be an appropriate time to say you know, are there any big picture objections to this other than putting it on the shelf versus proceeding with a quarter million dollar funding that.

[44:07] is probably not going to happen that kind of feels like the decision point that we're at I do have a couple of nitpicky feedback things but i'm not sure it matters at this moment. I don't see any reason to commit to anything to grand at this point, I would be interested if it was possible to implement the pavement markings that would create the buffered bike lanes on pine I feel like that would. be a small percentage of the quarter plus million dollar project and and with that we could create a safer bicycling facility and also by narrowing the traveling hopefully reduce speeds, which is the objective of. This program and then I would want to reassess the impacts of any investments, we make on full some before we. This data was captured before we had modified folsom and pine I think there's likely other improvements that we can do on fall folsom for cars turning off of folsom on to these the side streets South the pine and so i'd want to see what the data says after those.

[45:12] More cost effective arterial focused improvements are installed. before committing to anything else, just to see what impact if at all, that has this, so I think, where I would land is it's not commit to anything right now but see if staff thinks it's possible to implement the just the protect the buffered by plans rather West up fulsome. You think that's something that could be done, independent of the other proposed treatments. Yes, I believe that is definitely something that the top thing that we would be able to explore through scheduled maintenance would be adding those buffered bike lanes, and so I think that's a. I don't want to guarantee it, but I think that's a, the first thing that we would look at doing and seems pretty probable.

[46:06] Thanks. Any other members of tab have any thoughts. on how to proceed with this. i'm not seeing any would anyone like to start crafting emotion. Okay, can I propose a motion. I mean we were just talking about putting something on the shelf right. or recommending that we. In the near term follow up through with. The bike lanes installations that cost relatively little.

[47:04] yeah well, he said that was going to be happening. Okay. Erica. Thank you, I, I think, I just wanted to be able to express it's beyond just simply putting it on the shelf, I think that we wanted to also provide a level of security uncertainty. For the neighborhood that so much work had gone into, and so you know from a staff perspective, we were prepared to go ahead and implement this once. You know the design had been finalized, but in the pivot and repurposing dollars from SMP and other programs to the can. It doesn't we don't have the funds to be able to do that, but we did want to at least acknowledge all the work that have gone into working with the stakeholders in the neighborhood and so that was our intention and brings forward.

[48:02] Thanks Erica yeah I think we're all gracious for the. effort that staff put into this, it was neat that they looked at an area, not just a single street and, of course. gratitude gratitude is a to the neighbors who who participated in the public process, I think, looking at the cost of this for context the half mile of protected bike lanes on the nearby. arterial folsom cost $100,000 less than these the set of proposed devices in the neighborhood, and so I would anticipate from a cost benefit perspective that will be a lot more. Effective. So. It sounds like tab i'm not hearing any objections to we just don't commit to finalizing this design anytime soon that fair. I think that would stop is asking for some kind of stamp of approval, so they have to come back again if they want to.

[49:05] I wouldn't want to. push it funding become available but. I wouldn't want to approve anything until we see how the the interim treatments impact the speed and safety in this area. Okay. i'm kind of with you on that, so it sounds like no no formal recommendation from Tampa. agree. you're fishing for emotion and you're not getting one. No other thoughts, we can we can move on, we appreciate the work that's been done here. very, very thorough, but, as we all know, limited resources to go around and and 300 miles of roadways to try to fix. Okay, with that we will move on to the staff briefing and tab feedback on the core arterial.

[50:01] network and the upcoming pavement management Program. Thank you Nathan for joining us, and I think now i'll pass it off to Valerie Watson. Thanks Alex, let me just get my my settings here. All right, good evening chair wine hammer vice chair shirt and members of tab i'm Valerie Watson transportation planning division manager with the city of boulder presenting alongside me tonight as Garrett Slater our principal transportation engineer over capital projects. And let's start with the core arterial network, followed by Garrett, presenting on the pavement management Program.

[51:02] I first like to recognize the role of tab and what we are about to present tonight. As tab vice chair and now chair Alex wine hammer has presented previously, the concept of a core arterial network that started as a light bulb moment for him. Our busiest streets connect us to an array of day to day destinations and there were critical piece of our overall mobility network. With one map Alex found a way to articulate this concept visually stitching together pieces of our existing policy documents to catalyze this conversation. And in February of this year boulder City Council elevated this concept as one of its 12 priorities for city departments tasking transportation and mobility with generating a plan, a plan for the can. Its ambitious vision, but, as we will discuss tonight it's also a vision that we share as planning and engineering professionals for the future of our city and it reflects many of the projects and design approaches already identified and the transportation master plan.

[52:04] The can concept serves as a unifying force for city stuff elected officials and the public. And tonight we're pleased to present to you staffs efforts to advance this concept into a strategic work plan for the core arterial network that aligns city resources and members of the Community to bring this vision to fruition. So first let's talk a bit more about what the can is and what it is not. We agreed and the importance of a layered network of arterial streets so some arterial street should have modal priority. And that's special emphasis on design elements that make it safer, more comfortable more convenient to take the bus or ride a bike. And that's sidewalks and crossings for people walking serve everyone whether you're stepping out of your car to walk to a shop or getting off your bike to lock it up and catch the bus.

[53:01] We see the can, as the next frontier for boulder mobility building from the existing world class network of on street facilities. off street multi use paths neighborhood streets underpasses and transit priority streets, we can close the gaps that exist in our overall network, so that anyone can find a connected consistent route to where they need to go, no matter how they get around. As you can see, on this map, we have already made a lot of progress over the years, implementing big projects on our big streets. And the beauty of the concept that city council has directed us to pursue is that it complements that work and focuses investment so that almost every corner of the city is within walking or biking distance of a network that will take you anywhere in the city and beyond. As we have articulated in the memo circulated to you all at tab we are advancing the concept of the can into a work plan.

[54:01] This work plan is shown in blue lines on the map it's important to note that progress has already been made on building out infrastructure along our core arterial network overall shown in dark Gray on the map and we continue to make progress, everyday with an ongoing suite of projects. Our work plan involves finding opportunities to accelerate remaining projects along this identified network through strategic reallocation of staff and funding resources. let's also talk about what the can is not the can is not just one project and it's not a plan that will sit on the shelf rather it's an approach to maximizing and focusing our limited resources where they will have the most impact for boulder and the planet. We should also note that the can concept prioritized by Council and the core doors that are represented in this work plan they've all been identified previously in our strategic planning and policy documents. The transportation master plan identified both folsom and iris as streets for future quarter studies.

[55:07] And all of the corridors with a bicycle facility focus, with the exception of Pearl street were designated as candidates for protected bicycle lanes with vertical or horizontal separation in our low stress walk and bike network plan. 28th broadway East arapaho, these are all corridors identified as candidates for bus rapid transit and other transit enhancements in the names or the Northwest area mobility, study and that's our regional transit plan with our TD and neighboring jurisdictions. Our Vision Zero safe streets report and forthcoming Vision Zero action plan also address can work plan corridors. Starting with our transportation master plan is that overarching policy document and building from these other plans and efforts. The can work plan is the prioritization of the policy direction and project candidates that are found throughout these documents and will work to implement the can through programs, such as the capital improvement program pavement management program and Vision Zero.

[56:09] When it comes to designing and implementing projects along the can and as our former tab chair Tila recognized at the opening of this tab meeting there's a human cost to consider the incidence of crashes, resulting in serious or fatal injuries. The. Vision Zero boulder safe streets report found that a majority or 67% of traffic crashes that result in serious injury or death occur on boulders arterial streets. And 44% of total city wide serious in fatal crashes occur along streets identified in the can work plan those streets shown in blue on the map. what's good is that the forthcoming Vision Zero action plan will have a strong focus on the can work plan corridors, allowing us to integrate crash analysis and countermeasure pairing into the overall project development process.

[57:09] We also know that focusing investments along the corridors in the can work plan reaches a fair portion of the overall boulder residential population. This visualization shows that residential density is consistently higher along these corridors, meaning that these future connections are within steps of 63% of boulders residents. And an even higher percentage 89% of boulder residents who live in group settings like university dorms live within a half mile of the can work playing corridors. Access to opportunity is also a huge part of our coven recovery, although we hear a lot about housing affordability and rent burden, we also know that transportation is the second highest household cost. So connecting people to jobs with a range of mobility choices is part of lifting up those in our Community, who have experienced a lot of financial hardship this visualization shows that 71% of boulder jobs are within a half mile of a camcorder.

[58:14] When we consider our bus routes within boulder six of the 13 can work plan corridors carry high quality bus service, and that means. Buses that have headways have less than 15 minutes and in terms of who we are connecting 75% of total average daily boardings and a lightings that's people getting on and off the bus city wide are happening along or within a half mile of our camera time corridors. Lastly, this map shows a snapshot of the incredible wealth of Community destinations like parks schools places of worship and grocery stores that follow along or within walking distance of the corridors on the can work plan. All of these factors combined make a really strong case that the investment of our limited resources will have a REACH far beyond the individual project areas but.

[59:07] I guess we don't need any more data to convince you of why this idea is quite compelling so let's talk about how this will roll out. This slide maps out our work plan for the can. you'll see that seven of the Council identified can corridors are active projects, meaning they are either already in design or they're approaching construction. This includes work along 28th street 30th street Colorado East arapahoe baseline 13th and the belmont road multi use path part of that gun barrel connection. Then we have three priority corridors, these are the three streets listed at the top of the schedule and we've taken stock of opportunities, such as the pavement management program to accelerate the initiation of design and Community engagement for these projects.

[60:02] So that's baseline road iris avenue in folsom street. we're also mindful of additional opportunities to assemble more funding for camcorders including funding from seeded Colorado Department of Transportation. As well as potential Dr Kong that's Denver Regional Council of governments transportation improvement program the tip funding applications. With external funding also comes timeline considerations, so this schedule reflects that. Lastly, design and Community engagement for the remaining corridors will be initiated in 2023 or beyond and that's broadway pro street belmont road in the downtown study. We will initiate design and Community engagement along those three priority corridors baseline iris and folsom starting in 2022 to 2024. These projects are selected for their value to the network in terms of providing enhanced multimodal north, south and east, west connectivity that's currently lacking in those areas of the city, as well as opportunity to couple investments and improvements with scheduled pavement resurfacing.

[61:15] we'll talk a little bit more about the status of our pavement management program later on in this presentation. As we have worked to reallocate staff resources to start work on the can work plan and developed that associated schedule that we just showed we have been mindful of previous similar projects and the lessons learned. The typical project development process for project projects like the one under consideration for our priority corridors is composed of multiple phases. along the way, there are many factors that can influence the trajectory of a corridor project. Things like conflicting public opinions sinking up with resurfacing schedules and contractors floodplain and drainage constraints.

[62:01] The need for utility relocation or right away acquisition and even procurement hurdles like escalating costs and supply chain issues. Also, the start of construction, sometimes does not immediately follow final design since capital funding availability varies and works differently. project by project, so these can all influence project delivery. we're committing to a steady pace for initiating design and Community engagement on our priority corridors, so that we use our staff and funding resources efficiently and account for the twists and turns that can come along the way. it's also important to note that Community engagement is a continual part of the overall project development process. Well input from consultation with the public is most concentrated towards the beginning of the process, as you can see, with that gradient on the yellow bar. There are feedback loops that inform design every step of the way. As shown on the slide input from the public has the most influence early on and that's why investing in a Community engagement strategy and doing that preparation and legwork to establish Community relationships and local knowledge for each project quarter, is so important.

[63:16] We have started to assemble funding for the can work plan corridors and will continue to scope additional budgetary needs as we get further along. We have already identified $1,215,000 for initiating design of the priority corridors in 2022 and 2023. These funding sources were previously earmarked for an update to the transportation master plan which will now be delayed until 2023 or beyond. The neighborhood speed management program or in SNP which you heard about earlier tonight. The neighborhood green streets program as well as a small pocket of funds that was allocated to Vision Zero improvements these work programs will be paused and definitely to reallocate funding and staff time to this can work plan.

[64:04] Although there are trade offs to pausing this work on our local streets and our master plan update Council requested these bold moves to accelerate work on our arterial. As I mentioned before we're also happy to share that si dot has committed one and a half million for the arapaho corridor and will soon finalized commitment we hope. For another million and a half dollars for the broadway corridor. And we're also hopeful that are Dr cobb tip and revitalizing Main Street applications that relate directly to can work claim corridors are successful, our current regional in sub regional tip applications, if successful, with garner over $31 million dollars in funds for can related work. As we embark on this work we have launched a website so that our efforts on the can work plan are easily accessible and digestible we have it set up so that it can evolve and grow over time to and house cord or specific project information.

[65:07] And we will develop a Community engagement engagement strategy for each corridor that's tailored to those unique characteristics of the neighborhoods in which we will be working. Community engagement as an integral part of the overall project development process feedback from the Community on existing conditions challenges and opportunities all that local knowledge that will be used to shape the overall design process. We want to strengthen relationships with our Community based organizations and advocacy partners in this too, as well as develop new relationships that broaden the REACH and quality of our engagement. For also currently exploring a collaboration through the boulder walks program to offer Community engagement support for individual projects such as walk audits Spanish language and older adults focused engagement activities and Community celebrations. Lastly, we're thankful to alexi Davies and Community cycles for inviting us to table at the upcoming bicycle film festival on April 22 birthday, which is a fine event to debut our outreach materials on the cam.

[66:16] So, as I mentioned earlier, several of our camcorders have segments that are slated for roadway pavement resurfacing as part of our pavement management Program. So, tonight we thought it would be really helpful to just Couple this presentation on the can with a quick update on the p amp T and the mobility enhancements initiative and so now i'll hand it over to Garrett for this update. All right, again, for the record my name is Garrett Slater principal transportation projects engineer and. I am here to talk about the pavement management program and recognizing that we have two new board members, I thought it might be useful for us to just talk about why we have such a program and. So i'll save it for many years in the city of boulder taking care of our streets in our transportation infrastructure in general, was a bit.

[67:09] reactive in nature, and there was not a formal proactive method by which we would take care of the assets that we have under our care, and so in the. Mid 2000 odds, to the late $2,000 going into 2010 the city created a formal payment management program to help us take care of the 300 centerline miles of streets that we have within the city and it's important to note that. For example, with the feedback we got during the public comments tonight oftentimes we get feedback about the quality of streets that we are not responsible for such as 28 street. arapahoe foothills parkway so on and so forth, these are all state highways that are outside the purview of our payment management program because they are. owned and maintained by the state of Colorado and so see that or the Colorado Department of Transportation maintains those facilities.

[68:05] And so we have asset management programs for each of our major assets transportation categories so payment or streets, we also have sidewalk asset management programs multi use path maintenance programs and bridge asset management programs. And so, with the creation of the pavement management program is it was being stood up and created an inventory and and put together as a formal program in 2010 to 2012. There was obviously recognition that there's a strong need for coordination with other city departments, such as the utilities department, so that we are not paving new sts one year before they come in to replace a water line. And so that coordination effort has become a well oiled machine in terms of regular and frequent touch points with other departments, not just utilities, but parks and open space so on and so forth, and.

[69:01] In recent years, it's been brought to our attention that we could also expand the scope and breadth of what the payment manager program is touching. To include mobility enhancements and tab was no small part of this being brought to our attention. And so i'll pick up here with this slide here to note that the mobility enhancements that the pavement management program can be implementing. is consistent with the recommendations that are found in the last dress like not. bike and network plan and to help us also implement other programs, such as the neighborhood speed management which we've no longer have. The neighborhood green streets Vision Zero Action Plan, these are all examples of plans and programs that the payment manager program can help us move forward and and see progress on next slide. So examples of what the mobility enhancements that we can see as a result of the plp would entail signing and marking enhancements. Minor operational changes such as adjustments to speed limits and adjustments to lane dimensions of vehicular lanes to so that we can increase language of.

[70:09] cycle lanes and also minor infrastructure enhancements such as curb returns curveball bouts and pedestrian ramps which you can see, and the image on the right side of the screen here next slide. So what this does not include his projects that would entail significant amounts of funding so millions and millions of dollars, because. Our patron management program doesn't have the bandwidth to accommodate that it would not include significant operational study or involved Community engagement repurchasing a travel lanes right of way acquisition and or parking removal. Next slide. So where we are doing the work that coordinates with the payment management program are these three quarters of lehigh street near.

[71:00] The in the table mason neighborhood 17 streets in central boulder and more head avenue is another that we're exploring and Martin acres neighborhood so if we go to the next slide and take a look at this. So lehigh street is an example of all the things that we can do it didn't take significant robust Community engagement we didn't have to repurpose parking. It didn't take a gazillion dollars to implement, and it was actually brought forward to us. By tab as a way to try to as an example of a way that we can try to leverage the dollars, that we do have within the p and P, to make. incremental enhancements to our mobility network, and so we have this safe routes to school project. That is implementing crossing treatments, to improve safety for students and parents that are getting their students to Mesa elementary by providing curb. bump outs or neck Downs and crossing treatments across lehigh which sometimes acts as a barrier for the neighborhoods to the east of lehigh to get access to Mesa elementary it's also constructing a multi use path to.

[72:08] provide better Austrian connectivity to bear creek elementary there's a well worn social path there that largely we're going to take advantage of that alignment to build that multi use path. And as a part of that see for us to school funding which, as a grant funding that we. procured successfully from the Colorado Department of Transportation to use our local dollars to use those grant dollars than to go much further. We are coming in with the pavement management program because lehigh street was identified as one that needs to be resurface and we're going to be creating buffered bike lanes, which were not present before this was a standard. bike lane facility and so we're going to have now buffered bike lanes between table Mesa to crack more and a new climbing bike lane from Craig more to Lafayette. And so there's the work for the safe routes to school project is already happening on the ground and country work and country repairs to make way for the overall paving projects.

[73:05] Which is already happening also and the paving is scheduled to happen this summer, along with the payment marketing and the buffer bike lanes happening, the summer, so a good example of how we can use the plp to integrate. With the Vision Zero and the mobility enhancements that help us to further our tmp goals in an incremental manner next slide. So 17 street is going to be implementing crossing markings at the arterial intersections creating improve visibility at intersections by providing. ample space, such as bike boxes for people riding bikes as they approach intersections to improve visibility for all. and hopefully reduce conflict and will also be implementing southbound standard bike lane from Pearl to walnut which is not present today there's not sufficient.

[74:00] With to be able to implement a northbound bike lane, and that segment, but we will be able to implement a South on bike lane, which is not present today. And more head is slated for paving and 2023 and so we're going to be commencing the planning of the opportunities that are available to us for additional mobility enhancements some of the capacity to implement. Potential larger scale enhancements will be limited because of the redirection of funds to the core arterial network planning that is going to be increasing but. If there are low hanging fruit type opportunities for us to implement this and along morehead will certainly explore those. And if we go to the next slide bringing this full circle back to valerie's presentation. Where the the p amp P is also helping to further rtmp goals, so the baseline road is obviously one of our priority quarters and the can. And so we are going to be exploring what we can do to improve the the protection for existing bicycle lanes also looking at modifications to the bus stops so that we can create the floating bus islands that.

[75:10] reduce the need to play for auger with vehicular traffic and buses as they're stopped at transit stops and it's exploring opportunities for improved pedestrian crossing treatments. I don't want to steal any thunder from from jeans update later this evening on the tip, but we did get some positive feedback about the baseline road project as. As a potential tip project also so we. have a lot of staff discussion to come about whether we can make the sort of a two phase project, where we can implement some of the improvements as part of the p amp P, and then come in later and do additional enhanced opportunity and improvements. With tip funding, so I think that's the end of the p amp D portion of his presentation. yeah thanks Garrett, and you know with that here are the websites for the can and the pmt if you want to check those out we're now available to take your questions.

[76:08] Thanks Garrett and Valerie Valerie I think you told the story again far better than I ever could, and it was it was neat to see all the statistics that you had compiled that I don't have the time or ability to do. So that was really neat to see like this was a lot of information, especially, probably for our new. Members so with that with this there's there's no formal recommendation from tab, this is just an opportunity for us as individuals to ask questions and and provide feedback on these these items that I think will be coming to us at a later date. As individual items where we'll be able to talk about them in more detail, but if anyone has any general questions or feedback now it'd be a great time to ask. Alex I have something. yeah good. i'm really great stuff. I think this is one of the most exciting projects that i've seen come to tab in my my year on the board.

[77:07] Which is really working hard for multiple of the tmp goals and really straightforward way and i'm grateful for the co creation that happened between tab and staff on the division in the early framework and I just a few questions about implementation at this point. So the first is looking at the schedule see I don't know I put it, there was this was kind of a work plan schedule and one of the slides. For the different different likewise and it had. iris iris and folsom. And there was a key and it showed that when construction would happen there are different different letter codes. See was construction I didn't see it see a construction phase for those i'm just wondering if there's any anything staff can share on when constructions expected purple some an irs gap at the top of the green rose.

[78:05] Here you may be on mute. Okay, thank you yeah I can speak to that Ryan, so the reason we're not showing construction is. It would seem disingenuous to the study and design efforts to commit to a specific construction timeframe, without knowing the full scope of what we're looking to actually. Implement so on most all of these rows where you're seeing sees for construction it's where we have a general. or a pretty strong understanding of what it is we actually want to build an implement. And so on those quarters, we need to spend time working with the Community and with specific stakeholder interests in groups to identify what the, the project will look like and how it relatively take shape. Okay, that makes sense is there any then kind of like a back of the napkin bookends you can do I mean is, it looks like many of these the see ranges go from.

[79:04] Two to maybe five ranges so is I don't want to force it but i'm just curious can use their way to think about likely minimum and maximum. I mean it is committed right if it's if it's committed to happen. Right, so I would say it really so it's going to be contingent on in a function of the recommendations that come out of these studies and these designs and the so if. The design that comes out of the iris avenue work is something that is easily implementable, then we could potentially see sees happening and 2024. If it's a little more robust in nature, than it might push out to an additional year and then same for folsom street. That we could potentially see those seeds lining up and 25 but if it's a little more substantial in nature, then it could take a little more time to build the funding for such a project to come together.

[80:01] Okay, so it's really about the question is about is about the engineering and design. requirements and that that's what would define that. Correct. about it okay thanks Thank you Gary I have one or two other questions more on the the. The just success factors of getting this done and i'm just wondering if if there's anything we've learned from previous cases where we had to. pull back from bike ways like awesome or otherwise, and if there's any lessons that we take from that to this. and specifically things that like city council should be ready for the we should be ready for to help um you know just I don't know any any lessons that come from the past that that we bring forward on us. You know, and I think part of what I wanted to lay out in the presentation this evening is that that process.

[81:07] And how important Community engagement is to the overall project development process and I talked about how there's just a continual Community engagement throughout the life of a project and all the way to construction. And that that Community engagement is most intensive and most important in the beginning of the process, so you know we're going to be working really hard to develop Community engagement strategies, before we start doing any work on these corridors, so that we're setting up these projects. or a successful process so that's one thing I think is important to note, you know I think in terms of lessons learned from previous projects. Is that we just have to pay careful attention to the relationships that we build the local knowledge that we tap to inform the design process and that's I think something that that will be integrated into every corridor and Garrett, is there anything you'd like to add.

[82:03] I would just reinforce what you said Valerie and that, if you look at some successful models that have been deployed in the city. 30th and Colorado and East arapaho to meet are great examples of that, and when you look at the level of Community engagement that was put forward on on those corridors. I think, and now we are actually out and building and implementing those with the support of the Community it speaks to the importance of that being a key part of the the overall process. Thanks, and I suppose on earth there's a question here, but i'm just about valley i'm thinking about your your response and i'm thinking, maybe the point that hadn't really crystallized even my own mind here but it's something like. Are there are there is a messaging that is important both for that, for the city for city residents and can I guess Council. on how we talk about this, and what this is like Is this something that we're just we're trying out and is pilot and we're.

[83:03] Welcoming the public feedback to consider if they like it or not, or is this maybe it as another example, a decision that we're making with respective values, because we are in a climate of urgency and we're creating. we're giving rights to two groups that haven't added before, and this is happening. So those are two kinds of different different takes and maybe this needs more top but i'm just wondering if there's anything that. I did want to put you on the spot, but I guess I just saw my mind that there's. On the subject of public engagement that there seems like there might be something here that is about getting staff and tab and Council aligned down with respect to like this is, this is what we're, this is what we're selling. I guess because, because of course there's going to be there's going to be feedback and there's going to be noise. But if we if there's been a values based decision by our leadership to make this happen it's important that we, you know I guess i'll get behind that I guess that's a comment, not a question, but feel free to before.

[84:03] I could just quickly offer it's I guess Our job is staff to be able to provide choices and provide options to both you. And ultimately, to counsel and to be able to identify what the issues are and implications, much as you had just described. And ultimately it's going to be Councils choice about how they balance the myriad of goals and objectives that the city has and accomplishing. and moving further toward Atlanta the vision for the city, and so I think that's the framing of it, and as we go through, and we do both studies and then pre design and design we're trying to keep that always in mind, because. There you know as public comment showed earlier on this ethan there's a myriad of perspectives on a number of different topics and transportation. Okay.

[85:00] Okay, thanks Erica we need one more one more question and i'll stop Valerie um is there anything that for tab that you know if we or I guess other advocates in the city that we're doing work to. Just try to make sure folks understand the benefits that are coming their way in this, I mean I think there's i'm just guessing I know a lot of people who buy Community daily they. They have no idea that is happening, and if they did they would probably line up be ready to line up and support come to whatever meeting. Is there anything that tab or advocates can do should start to do is, as you said, early on, is when the the action is going to be the most the most useful. And I mean just like an example next next week Wednesday April 20 is bb estes bike the. bike walk to school day um there's gonna be tons of parents gathered and you know, there could be signups if anybody's organizing so I was wondering if you might have any call to action for tab you can also think about it, but i'm just wanted to put that out there.

[86:02] You know, thank you so much for that question Ryan I I I think one thing that's important to think about in terms of lessons learned from previous efforts and how we can you know kind of. You know solidify an approach for these projects is. That broadening the reach of our engagement two groups that don't usually interact with transportation and mobility conversations. I think that can go a long way to generating that ground swell of Community support for this work. You know, as Eric mentioned earlier, there are trade offs that we will be communicating there, you know as well as benefits of these projects and helping a wide range of folks understand that and. get behind these projects, I think, is going to be really important, for you know, bringing these projects to fruition and a role that tab. can play and I mentioned this, as I presented to Community cycles not too long ago is to help us identify some of those Community based organizations or groups.

[87:06] That are out there that might not always plug in to transportation conversations, but when you really think about it, some of the issues that they're working with. You know transportation is actually very fundamental to people's day to day life, so I can imagine their parent groups there are. Groups that work with older adults, I could see folks that work with housing issues being really interested in these conversations if they are invited into the spaces. And so that's, a role that I think tab and other advocacy organizations could really help with is helping us and have and start up those conversations to bring people into the process. Thanks Valerie yeah let's love to continue this on the subject of organizing, how can, how can we help to organize and make sure that the right folks know what meetings through can and that. Thanks thanks. Thanks Ryan anyone else from tab.

[88:03] I have a couple comments and a couple of questions and yeah Thank you so much for that we throw presentation, it was helpful to get the background on everything, since I feel like i'm catching up on a lot of stuff. um so yeah First, I have a couple comments, one is just related to the fatality data kind of in the spirit of what Tila mentioned at the top here, there are a few fatalities missing. just wanted to flag and one was from all of them happened last year. Ralph cook Brock foreman and David bowl mar one is on diagonal and what is on soft folder road, so this apple the road on is marked as a serious crash, but not a fatality so anyway, I just want to flag Those are a few missing. Thank you Rebecca it might be, because that data reflects 2018 to 2020, which is what the boulder safe streets report and looked at.

[89:02] which was recently published and it's on our website so as we continue to prepare Community engagement materials we can always. Look at different date ranges to get a broader perspective of the crashes that are out there, but I just wanted to make that kind of technical note there that it's the it might be because of the timeframe that the safe streets report analyzed. Okay, thank you, the legend on it says to 2022 and that's why I was. confused about it. yeah sorry about that. No that's okay I just I I appreciate that makes sense to see up to 2020 and those wouldn't get included, and thank you yeah one other comment is. is just thinking about I really appreciated the picture you painted of the intention of the can. coordinate effort across the different arterial streets, and I would also add to that I think there's an implicit but making X plus but it's also making it making these roads certainly safer for all sorts of modes.

[90:03] But, including people who are driving since a lot of people who are hurt and our reputation are in cars, so I just want to emphasize that it's really benefits for all modes and, of course, the facilities for people walking and rolling and. and transit but also just really benefiting people who are driving to by by keeping them safe so again, I think that was implicit, but I just like to always going to call it out, so people recognize that whatever changes are coming. are to benefit people driving and as well, for their for their safety and. So I have two questions beyond that one is sort of following up on what ryan's asking about is i'm curious if there are. Like if if I think it's having on folsom like if there's a potential that there would be interim treatments, for instance, if there's a design that. is more of a quick build projects, for instance converting a lane to a protected bike lane with.

[91:05] Concrete planters are those kinds of projects where you can kind of you can try it and then in the future, when you have funds for a more complete sort of redesign if necessary pursue that is that. Part of the consideration is that something that can be pursued like would be considered if it sped up the timelines for implementation and sort of a phased approach with iteration over time, or is that not likely to be for the path would be pursued. I could take a stab at this one Valerie and follow up if I misspeak, but I think I would say Rebecca that. That is an effort that we've tried with varying degrees of success in the past of doing sort of a test implementation and sometimes it's worked out and we've gone with a full implementation. I suspect that whether we do a sort of a test implementation or a full scale implementation of a project concept.

[92:03] would be a function of the type of Community input and feedback that we received, as well as of the the budget that we have to implement what the potential project scope may include. I think the only thing I would add is that you know Council and and tab in the past, you know have really articulated a need to be bold. So I think that's part of that project development process chart that I presented earlier is that moving forward, we can really formalize our steps across these corridors and and. You know, hopefully, accelerate the process, and you know really try to see improvements on the ground and be more you know permanent as part of these processes. And I think that does speak to some of the lessons learned from previous approaches and you know, sometimes when things are. called low cost or they're called interim or their pilots, it can change the conversation with the public in a way that is not always you know.

[93:09] an informative conversation, and so I think if we can kind of standardized that dialogue across our projects it might help us, you know, continue to make progress on projects, and you know you know, maybe have more beneficial conversations. yeah that's really interesting point thanks. For sharing that um so one last question, which is about the pavement management program and i'm curious I was curious why and. So there's the list of sort of things that can be included in the mobility enhancements and things that can't and I was curious, I have some guesses but I was curious what your thoughts are on why. Why the like things like. reallocation of space on the roadway assuming it's mostly changes and where the paint is as opposed to putting something new, on top of the roadway and i'm wondering why those are excluded from this program my reallocation of spaces excluded from eligibility from for that Program.

[94:17] I would say. In to clarify it's where the threshold resides is going to be a little tricky. To say that it's absolutely this line, because each quarter is going to vary a bit, and we are reallocating space on the lehigh project as we noted by creating the buffered. Were today it's standard bike lanes, but primarily it's going to be in corridors, where might be viewed by some that there's some pain involved with reallocation of space and an example will be taken away on street parking that's the kind of. task that entails a whole lot of Community engagement and the pavement management program endeavors to tackle more or less around seven to 10 miles, depending on how.

[95:05] Good our pricing is with a contractor in a given year of paving and we simply don't have. All the time the resources to be able to do that type of engagement with all the stakeholders and the affected parties. When we're talking about taking away on street parking and be able to get and then have time left in the year, the calendar year to be able to do all that paving. So therefore those sorts of really big endeavors and efforts will take more time and that's why we've said they're outside the scope of the payment management program would be more of a singular effort. I would like to. I would like to add to your question Rebecca and in this point would, would you be considering any exclusions, for example, for the morehead road where that could be very easily done, considering that there's already a no parking.

[96:03] side of the road, and I think it would be a very productive solution but i'm going back with what Rebecca was in would it be possible in certain stances to consider. We allocation or no. Yes, I would say we're always open to considering that up front and if it appears in the and the course of. Getting the project moving along that it's going to be a substantial effort that's when we would need to make a decision. about whether that can be done in the context of the plp or if it should be a standalone project so at the beginning we're not immediately sort of dismissing those ideas, it appears that they might be able to be easily implemented. Thank you. Well, thanks and part of what I wanted to talk about was you know hopping right on to that so i'm curious to hear Garrett say where we're not ruling it out when the memo right clearly seems to say we're rolling it out.

[97:11] And I did want to ask about that because it wasn't clear to me from the memo was was the. No removal of on street parking kind of rule was that about can, in general, or just the tmp portion about how. Thinking about can can. piggyback on existing efforts, and so I just wanted to clarify. Can thinking does not necessarily out rule out. Those bullet points that are kind of listed as know goes for the pmt plan specifically. Operational changes removal of on street parking reallocation repurchasing travel lanes, can we be very clear on the record tonight that can might be considering all of those things.

[98:01] Yes. and I regret that there might be some misunderstanding about that so in the context of the plp were saying that that's generally going to be the case that we're not going to be open to those things, because the. dmp yeah for the p amp D. yeah we we need that the. The primary goal is getting the streets paved. And within the time frame that's limited. That we can we would like to make those mobility enhancements but within the context of the can Those are all on the table. i'm not dismissing those with the can. Thank you, I was, and I feel happy happier vs Bethan My next question is about some of this. Need for Community engagement and the level of Community engagement I I feel particularly dole because I feel like i've asked this question and multiple times of different contexts, and I still don't really have a good way to tell. When do we know whether we're at a consults versus an inform level of engagement, when do we know when to stop listening because.

[99:11] In particular, this memo is talking about how can is kind of already in. The 2019 tmp low stress walk and bike plan and bowler belly COMP plans climate action plan we haven't we listened to enough isn't this the time to take the information that we've gathered and said. Here is what we've decided to do and then move to the level of inform why why, if we've rebranded some effort and called it can why don't we just start from the beginning and rethink Community engagement. Or how, how do we decide well how what what level Community engagement we're doing don't we have enough. yeah oh i'll start on this one and Garrett, please feel free to chime in I think. To this is, this is a great conversation to have, I think, as we embark on what can maybe be you know some pretty intensive and complex projects.

[100:04] And you know the the planning and strategic policy documents that we mentioned tonight, whether it's the tmp that low stress plan all those. They are really kind of setting out a framework and a policy direction. But they don't necessarily get into detailed design as part of what the output of those documents were and the product development process that we talked about tonight is really important, because. that's where we get into the details of feasibility we get into analysis and we we get into the like the overall design process and. That has not happened for those segments, they may have been called out in those plans is having a modal priority or an emphasis. or they've they've been designated because of their value to certain part of the network, but that detailed design conversation has not yet happened, and I think that's what. You know, is is something we want to be really deliberate about as we approached these projects, especially the ones that have the potential to get you into a pretty you know high level of complexity and so that's one thing I would just mentioned that.

[101:13] We when you asked earlier about when do things go from consults. to inform um yeah I think it really is kind of a spectrum along that project development process and i'm not talented enough to bring this up on the screen and talk at the same time, so if you can remember that yellow bar. Yes, represent as a community engagement it had a gradient on it. And that's really kind of representing when we're going from consult and and in the early part of the process where input is really. influencing the design process and then kind of tapers out as you get closer to final design and implementation and construction where we're really more into the inform end of the spectrum, so there are no hard and fast rules.

[102:01] We don't you know put something on our website to say okay we're now uninformed, but it is part of the process, it is something that that does change over time, as we go through the steps and and you know, I think. That we do still need to consult the community of on this suite of projects, because a lot of these projects, and both significant trade offs. So that is something that we're doing very deliberately to make sure that we're setting up these projects for success and building the support that is needed for our elected officials to continue to support the projects as well. Okay, so some of those trade offs definitely impact, people who are not part of our Community. Right, I mean that's why we're talking about these materials they are places definitely that you know our Community members use to access. Their jobs outside of the Community, or you know far away from their homes, but we are under no illusions that this is the same flavor of thing as a speed hump you know, on an exceedingly low traffic street in a neighborhood what would our.

[103:07] obligation, I suppose, look like to contacting consult those outside users and at what point do we say sorry this is our Community you're coming in and you're going to just drive slower here because. Because there's too many of you, and you are killing our residents you're killing our visitors you're killing your fellow commuters at what point did we. decide that that kind of outreach and you know our tent is big enough that we gotta stop asking for input and start implementing what we need. You know I think Erica mentioned this earlier that our role as staff, and you know engineering and planning professionals on these projects is really to collect that information collect that feedback. And some of it influences the design process and, ultimately, we will be presenting a series of choices, you know with our elected officials.

[104:06] And they are the decision makers on these projects right, so you know I think we would take all the input we get whether it's from local residents, or. You know folks in the region and assemble that input for our city council to consider and and tab along the way, before we get to that point. So I think that that's something that is an objective part of the professional process that we will undertake. Okay, I would just like to raise this as a total outsider not a professional on this one. One of the best ways to get impact or feedback about the impacts of a proposal is to try it out to make them. try it out, and I think this is where becky's coming from about quick build and. Trying some you know trial implementations of this stuff I think you can put as many signs along the.

[105:02] commuters route that say we are considering some kind of thing and look up this website of his phone number that you can actually do wire, you know driving along. verse is actually trying a reallocation of road space that. Changes people's perspective of how they use the road and that's really when you're going to get some very you're gonna you're gonna get the riches coming out from under the you know the carpet. And if you were trying to hear from everybody and from all of these multiplicity of perspectives that Erica was talking about earlier. I would give a pitch for for feeling out and trying out in real time on real road space, some of the things that would that we're considering doing because I fear that. City Council having asked to sign off on. unknowns and sort of hypothetical changes to a roadway without really having.

[106:01] feedback from real road users, when it happens, are still going to we might still find ourselves in the folsom situation we're like well we didn't have all the information and we didn't know we couldn't feel their pain. So I just I just want to put that out there as a. Just a way to have a realistic gut check of what we are thinking of doing, because I think, to make real changes to make actual speed mitigation happened to make people drive more slowly drive more carefully drive more consciously of other users on the road. We have to change the road to do it and to say we that we are collecting feedback in a hypothetical space about what it will look like and feel like is not going to satisfy either the road users who will. be experiencing that change and those impacts or City Council who is going to be asked to put their necks out about it. And I think that trying to get feedback from far flung members of our user base, not necessarily our Community, but you know these 60,000 commuters whatever the number is these days is notoriously difficult and the best way to do it is to actually impact them first.

[107:16] yeah Thank you Tila and Rebecca also for your comments on that and I think these are all really great considerations for us to keep in mind as those are approaches to Community engagement and. Although they involve the engineering of trying to figure out, you know how to put things on on the road in an interim fashion to test things out and it really. What you're speaking to is is one approach to Community engagement and it's certain some certainly something we can continue to keep in our toolbox and consider. For these different projects, I think they're all going to have different needs and you know, depending on the nature of the project. The geography that we're working within within the city and you know it's it's you know I definitely appreciate your feedback on that because it's certainly something we can consider as a tool.

[108:03] You know i'd also mentioned that you know from experience on previous projects and. You know, in other cities, who have tried those approaches on on different projects with different results and the kind of. timeframe for a pilot and really is something that I think a lot of cities have have learned needs to be much longer than then folks have really done in the past, you know, I think that it takes time for folks to really you know settled into new driving patterns settle into. New patterns of using the road you know whether you're driving you're walking your bicycle and using the bus, you know it takes a long time, you know weeks if not months, and in fact in New York City they they. have committed to doing pilots, for more than a year, because they found that you need that that lengthen duration of time to really. See the the results of that change and to have the the actual substantial Community conversations that are needed for the elected officials to make an ultimate decision, so I really appreciate your feedback on that and that's something we can consider.

[109:15] Okay, I think my last. comment on this. Yes, I just wanted to add to that this, this is certainly not the only opportunity that you'll have to provide input input into what the public engagement will look like there'll be. Well, I wasn't worried about that. All right. I think the last thing that stood out for me on the memo was the paragraph that says as a next step. project development for each can quarter will build from the policy direction and closely explore existing conditions. advance conceptual designs and examine the feasibility proposed project elements responsive to the needs of each quarter, and these are all feeling like planning to plan. And i'm hearing Valerie say you know this stuff stuff takes time I get it been around I see how long it takes to fund these projects, and so my last question to us staff is, what can we do in the meantime that feels like we are getting something done.

[110:13] You know I think that's something when when we got this direction from city council, and you know earlier this year we we started to just chart out what are we currently working on. And then, what remains, and you know that's something that that you know we've we've shown in the slides tonight that we've we've chosen to accelerate three projects those priority corridors and because we're taking advantage of. Either the fact that they're part of the pavement resurfacing Program. or their their key connections either north, south or east, west that have just repeatedly through previous feedback and explorations with the Community been identified so. You know, I think that is is what we wanted to convey tonight is that we see those three projects, as is ones that are just ripe for accelerating process not doing lengthy studies really doing.

[111:06] You know the necessary work to develop a Community engagement strategy and set the project up for success, but we, you know we will do. The in the typical analysis that we need just to make informed decisions about the design process, but I think what we're trying to express tonight is. That that we are accelerating that process, so in that that chart that I had on the screen we're talking yet months instead of years to to go through those steps so we're committing to doing that kind of accelerated process that you might not have seen previously on other projects. Are you confident that that. Speed has been communicated to counsel. And in in what setting. I don't know. some Council members think yeah we're going to do, can we are it's on the Stafford plan.

[112:00] And I think there's some expectation to see some changes, you know, in the next year or two and what i'm seeing is you know. Exploring advancing conceptual examining feasibility I just i'm wondering what what kind of expectations from the city managers officer from Council we are frustrating or meeting. You know I think oh go ahead Erica. To say I think that there's a level of clarity of understanding it was given to us that you know Council wanted to accelerate these projects on the can network in order to actually construct a project, even if it's. Just putting some additional page or whatever to separate portions of the roadway surface there still needs to be at least some level design and analysis that goes with it, and I think that, whenever Councils talking about it. I felt that there was clarity given to us that they wanted things to be able to happen, much more quickly.

[113:06] Yes, broken that there was also an understanding that folks were. understood, there were going to be things that took time that took beyond two years in order to implement the can network as position okay. Thank you. Thank you to Tony do you have anything. I have a couple of thoughts that are probably future questions. But one of the questions I get asked about Camelot is what's the top priority, and what I what I tell people is that the, the objective is to be opportunistic. And it's not one of these is a higher priority than the other, but we should jump on these opportunities as they come to us whether it's a tip. opportunity or maintenance opportunity and I think a subtlety that is somewhat lost on canada's that.

[114:04] Some things that we have studied like 30th and Colorado are depicted on the map and and the talking points as a project to pursue in the near term. and East arapahoe it's more of an acknowledgement that a plan took place and and that's one where I think we wouldn't be as opportunistic if we were to go after things like the tip projects that have been proposed on a syrup such as one thing I wanted to to share. And then. It was interesting to see that 44% of crashes happen on can it be i'd be curious what percent of the railway network that is. Probably sound like a broken record when I keep repeating that 67% of our crashes happen on 17% of our streets I think of a parallel sort of statistic from can have 44% of our crashes happen on blank percent of our students would be, it would be a cool thing to know.

[115:01] Turning to p&p. morehead is an area where I think there's the highest customer concern in our community about the impacts of Steve south. And thinking through that corridor as an important connection between the future see South and will build main campus East campus is I think could could do a lot of good. Moving forward and help ease some of the concern and it'd be good to sooner than later, bring the university as a partner in the conversation, and perhaps it could be a funding partner and an engagement partner in that effort and then finally 17th street it looks like the only. 17 street, which has a bike lane on it that's slated for resurfacing soon looks like the only intersecting bike way is on walnut. And so i'd be curious if it be possible to install a protected intersection at that location. Or, since that locations in the context of a very walkable downtown if we could pull out all of the corners there.

[116:07] Those streets have on street parking, but of course you can't park at the corner, which means that on every corner there's an additional eight plus feet. That pedestrians have to walk across the street, and so, if we could narrow the crossing distances by by 16 feet in every direction I think that'd be a huge benefit to the downtown or explore a bike way and bolster the bike network that way. that's all I have. Thank you very much for this presentation i've never seen this much happening in this department all at once, and I think this is these objectives, these. Projects are very well aligned with our needs and so I think it's an exciting time and older transportation so thanks I think thanks for. With that, we will move on to the curbside management program I see live as unmuted and is maybe ready to present and Chris.

[117:08] Yes, i'm going to be kicking it off. All right, well get live to share her screen. Right Thank you live. alright. Good evening tab Chris eglin here principal planner tonight we're here to provide an update on our current site management project I am joined by live our project manager and carly from our consultant to my next slide please. So, tonight we want to review just briefly the project background, since we do have two new tab members. But the main focus is really going to be reviewing findings from our Community engagement process. And then we're also going to provide some updates on our work on existing conditions and also discuss the role of pilot projects and some of the ideas that we have received throughout the stakeholder process.

[118:07] we're going to finish with some next steps and a discussion of the questions that were provided to you in your memo next slide please. So just as some project context there's a key set of policy documents that guide all of our work, including the work here on curbside management. These include the boat valley comprehensive plan our transportation master plan cities Climate Action Plan, for example, and also the guiding principles that are laid out in the access management and parking strategies or as we say Apps. Documents these documents, work together much like the gears represented here and share a number of interrelated goals. These include Vision Zero our safety goals bmt and ght reduction, both in rtmp and the Climate Action Plan mode shift and, of course, you know and everything we do we want to have that that lens of social equity, diversity and inclusion as well.

[119:10] Next slide please. So, within the amps program itself, there are pretty wide variety of projects and programs, some of which are ongoing, some of which were. Implementing now and some of which are yet to be implemented and, hopefully, will be started soon. For example, camp or she talked about access management program is an ongoing pilot program it should talk about providing a free shuttle and managing. parking there at the park the neighborhood access management and parking pricing projects. Were the last amps projects we went through and are now in the implementation phases and then hopefully we're going to start the parking code and edm ordinance work with planning and development services later this year but for tonight we are focus, of course, on curbside management.

[120:03] So the purpose of this project and why we are looking at updating how the city managers of the curve is primarily that the curve is a public resource and it's a limited resource there's a limited supply. However, we're seeing certainly a growing number of competing demands, there are also some new emerging demands. Related to transportation technologies and improvements and changes and services to mcs like uber and lyft or a great example of that and Mike room mobility. There are also some demands we've seen more recently related to cofidis impact on travel behavior and how goods and services are delivered or in a lot of cases picked up by the public. Given these issues of supply and demand there's going to be trade offs and discussions about trade offs that we that needs to be made. If if we're going to change how the curve is used in this limited supply the curve itself is also that transition area.

[121:05] The place where people access their destinations and also connect with a variety of transportation options, lastly, effective and efficient curbside management policies and practices are yet another lever out of many to advance our Community goals. So this slide itself illustrates a wide variety of demands on the curb historically, we know that the curve has been most associated with parking and vehicle source storage and also Ada. Access the delivery of goods depends on loading zones and transit service relies on the curbside space for the loading and loading of passengers. In the city, we are seeing an increase need to safely manage TMC pickup and drop off and also organize our micro mobility devices. And we all know that cove it has certainly created an increase demand for sure short term, access to goods and services as well, but we'll be looking at all of these different competing demands as we go through the project next slide please.

[122:16] based on best practices and your input and input from other stakeholders that we've talked to we've identified a set of specific objectives to this curbside management work. we've heard your desire to emphasize the human experience to make sure that people of all ages backgrounds incomes and abilities, have access and have a choice when it comes to how they travel and the choices for how the curb influences. Within our districts, there are a variety of needs, and we need to be able to customize our approach to satisfy those various needs. We need to make sure that the curb is easy to use it, that it's clear what different designations are it's clear to the people who are going to use them.

[123:03] For city staff to their needs to be clarity, we need to establish standard operating procedures to determine curbside use and then also to respond to request for changes and how curb sites may be used. And, as mentioned earlier, we need to strategically implement policies and practices to help achieve our Community goals, finally, we need to adapt there's a lot of different emerging technology that impacts how people travel and we need to respond to that over time as well. And with that i'll turn it over to live for the next section. Thanks Chris. Live lewin senior transportation planner. thanks for having us tonight. Now i'm going to dive in a little more into kind of some of the key tasks of the project i'm.

[124:01] keeping in mind that the deliverable the the goal that we have insight is that program guidebook for implementation and to get there we've started by analyzing existing conditions so doing a detailed inventory of curb uses looking at parking occupancy making observations in the field. And, as well as doing Community engagement which will continue throughout the project, and one thing that we're going to be highlighting tonight in just a few minutes are some highlights from existing conditions, as well as the round of Community engagement that we just did. we're also looking at best practices and learning from what other cities are doing the concept of curbside management is actually fairly new but we're learning from from these other cities and some some guides that are being produced for the industry regarding this.

[125:04] we're taking a look at what our current policies and regulations are now and assessing where we might need to make changes to be able to implement the design the curve uses that we want in the future. And then we're going to be doing a task, where we kind of look at different options analyze those and ultimately come to some recommendations that go into that guidebook. With a standard operating procedures for staff for both proactive changes, as well as reactive that are like requests from the Community. To support this, we are exploring the potential to do some pilot projects to put some things out there and and learn from them and so that's also a part of this overall process, the overall schedule.

[126:01] excited extends it we started in the in the fall of 2021 and it will extend about another year from now into spring of 2023. So while this is a city wide program and plan, we do have. three key focus areas of downtown boulder junction and university Hill, these are our commercial districts where we have managed parking and where we're seeing those various competing demands for the curve that Chris mentioned before. So, in terms of Community engagement we've done a lot of that particularly the first quarter of this year, but we actually started with our access allies group. Which is our stakeholder group with various representatives, including Tila and Ryan from tab We appreciate your participation, as well as those.

[127:01] From a variety of districts and organizations to really get diverse perspectives that will support this project throughout we've already had three meetings so far and we'll have another three throughout the course of the project. We just had a questionnaire open on our website access for boulder calm that was open for several weeks. Where we got to really start talking about some of those trade offs again that Chris mentioned right. So people may want to see more of something on the curve and that will mean that we need to see probably less of something else to make that happen so we wanted to start that trade off discussion and carly will give you a snapshot of some of the results, about that in a moment. So to compliment the questionnaire, we also have had a number of different focus groups really to get at the diversity of users, I won't read all of those on there, but we talked with people like representatives from our TD, the lift business owners students from CMU and really.

[128:13] Really to dive in deep to what people think is working well what needs to be improved and again what they would like to see more of and less of. We also had pop up events and each of these districts where we had one on one conversations and encourage people to take the questionnaire. had some discussion via Spanish Facebook posts as well and have been going to our district commissions and advisory boards like yourself so. that's a quick update on what we've done for Community engagement and now i'd like to turn it over to carly to give you sort of the highlights of what we heard during that Community engagement. Thank you live. And again, probably see some fanciers.

[129:00] So the questionnaire that we send out that 267 responses we asked people what mode they took to get to or travel within each of these three districts and myself. are really great distribution of people driving walking biking taking transit or pulling from all mode, so a good sense and feel comfortable with the the array of modes being used in these three districts so. respondents could then answer the questions of what services do they want to see more than what do they want to see less of for. downtown boulder junction and or university health, so they could select one, two or three of those districts so we're just showing downtown here to give you a sample. We got almost everybody who responded to the survey respondent for downtown. We got about 100 responses for university Hill in boulder junction so the largest sample size for downtown here. And just want to acknowledge that this data might look it does look a little bit different from the tab memo. On so apologize for that as we worked through the data but wanted to present the latest and greatest data here, so you can see that folks were able to slide.

[130:07] Their responses, as to whether they wanted to see a lot more of a curb use where they would bring something a five or a lot less of a curb use where they rank something fun. So what the legend on the left, we can see that private vehicle parking range the lowest responses wanted to see less private vehicle parking than they did any other curb use. um so just to acknowledge three is this baseline of no change, so it really is coming. up between some less private vehicle parking and no change on the private vehicle parking so even though parking is. The curb use that folks wanted to see less of its it still is pretty close to no change and then next was car share the hearing some of the open ended qualitative feedback that's because. there's crusher parking and in garages and off street structures and then park let's so we'll talk about this in the open ended comments as well, but mixed.

[131:07] responses on on park glitz and some street closures in downtown and university hill as well, and then on the upper end things that people wanted to see more of like institute or parking ranked the highest here. But just out about some more by can scooter parking and responses and feedback we heard on this was that when possible bacon's good are packing should be on the sidewalk. However, often this gets in the way of the the public right of way and pedestrian movement and in those cases where there isn't enough side lots space for pedestrians, as well as making scooter parking the curb space can be used. For micro mobility parking short term curbside pickup also ranked highly so so folks remember the blue temporary signs that came up with coven. With 15 minute curbside pickup and drop off so something similar to that response to chris's comment of the evolution of demand for for curb space see for crossing, also in the top three as we think about bowl bouts and the trade off of that space for uses of the curve as well.

[132:11] Really, before you leave this slide I are all of these options, where they selected from a pulldown menu or do some of these it represent fill in the blank. You know, free fall upon says. that's a great question all these came from a pulldown menu, you could select it to leave no comments. On one of bacon. So then, on the next slide we talked about some. Of the the general themes we heard and these came from a lot of the the bullets of who we engage throughout this process that Liz mentioned, so the focus groups. As well as access allies and then from the open ended comments that were available in the questionnaire as well, so with almost 300 respondents to the questionnaire, we got a lot of feedback on. Generally, what uses people want to see more of or less of in the Community so some of the themes that we pulled out from those is a desire for the curb to better reflect city goals.

[133:10] And the city goals that really stood out our sustainability and and promoting modes, other than than driving alone so we'll see that in the breakdown of some of these more specific recommendations. But when people saw the amount of space being used for private vehicle parking they felt like there was. A need to reconcile that with with the Community goals for sustainability and then, as well as economic vitality, so a need for higher turnover spaces to really help support businesses, especially in the downtown area. So, as I mentioned in the chart as we signed the data desire for more bike and scooter parking. And that other uses that rose to the top that that respondents and and stakeholders wanted to see more of our ev charging stations. outdoor dining as well as countries greenery and our opportunities to really enhance the place making of the curve and an activate a space to to make it feel safer.

[134:07] As well as more or lively and then other potential opportunities are increasing increasing spaces for transportation network company like uber and lyft or private vehicle. pick up and drop off location and so we're seeing through observations, as well as through feedback from others that uber's left and private vehicles are dropping passengers off in travel lanes. they're double parking there in bike lanes and this is causing obviously safety concerns, as well as congestion. Similar behaviors that are happening for curbside pickup i'm just running into pick out but take up dinner take out dinner it'll take five minutes so illegal parking non compliance and some safety and. Efficiency implications of that behavior and then more Ada accessible parking for for those of mobility challenges as well. So we have another slide of some more open ended comments.

[135:00] We heard that you know as much as we want to see these other uses, it is important to have available on the street parking. We heard this a lot from the business focus group as well, and making sure it's really intuitive where that parking is. So that their customers can can conveniently find it and we can reduce cruising for parking people circling the block looking for an available on street parking space. But at the same time needing to balance that with mode shift goals of parking becomes easy and accessible than it, it provides less incentive for people to walk biker to take transit so understanding the trade offs in in that space. Of string street parking garages and and surface lots also is an important part of the conversation and has come up a lot in the feedback so that are. utilizing parking garages, by providing way finding and information to direct people to parking garages, as well as it came up improving the personal safety of thrashes that that might be a barrier. To use in garages as well, so better understanding what are the barriers to using off street parking and how can this effort, help help address those that are leverage on the streets basis.

[136:10] And then temporary street closures so so park blitzer event blocks that had mixed responses in through the feedback, so we heard from from some folks. That they really enjoyed these spaces others wanted to see improvements or maybe, making them temporary saw success of them in the summer, but less so in the winter. and improvements being to make them more intuitive consistent between businesses provide better pedestrian access. items like that, and then, lastly, referring back to chris's point on how the curve has evolved respondents and stakeholders that were engaged acknowledge that the curb should better represent our our current demands, as well as embrace and incorporate changes in technologies as well. So, moving from Community engagement to existing conditions so part of the existing conditions is understanding this qualitative feedback of what are the challenges to the curb today how is the current currently being used.

[137:10] So we took this qualitative feedback and supplementing it with a comprehensive data collection effort, so we inventory every curb space within each of the three zones that live shared. We also looked at alleys how are those being used for loading for parking or for moving people as well. And then we also collect parking occupancy during what we determined to be the peak parking time for each of these three areas by using smarting data to identify that peak parking time. And then collecting updated parking utilization data that i'll share as well. We also just made observations acknowledging that a lot could be captured just with this one snapshot in time of data collection so going out. To each of these three areas multiple times to observe how the curve is actually being used and capture some some latent demand a non compliance as well.

[138:00] Then we reviewed boulder revised Code to understand what current policies and regulations are as it relates to the curb today. This creates an important foundation, as we look to making modifications and exploring options to for policies and programs as well. And then, lastly, looking at what is the city's current process and responding to requests to changes to the curb so an example that business request the park but outside of that business, what is the process for city staff to respond to that request. To just share a snapshot of the data that we collected, this is showing i'll show each of the three zones. Both a map and a pie chart of what is the breakdown of curb regulations in each of those zones, so you can see, on this map so obviously downtown. The majority of downtown is parking most of that is paid parking how are there, there are a few blocks and spaces and on the outskirts of downtown that are either unrestricted timelines and or. Free for users and then we also in the mostly orange you can see our alley so it's a significant amount of loading.

[139:06] is allowed in those alleys we also have a small amount of the curb space use for park let's as well as bus stops and easy parking as well, but majority is is used for private vehicle parking in the downtown. And then boulder junction we see a few corners, where vehicle parking is paid and time restricted, however, a number of. of local roads, where we have the pink which is free unrestricted parking as well in some of the more residential parts of boulder junction. A few bus stops and a few loading zones as well, but primarily using the curb space for private vehicle parking we break that down there's a few easy spaces, that that folks might be familiar with, as well. And then Lesley university hills so similar to boulder junction in a 13th Pennsylvania college a few few court or is where we have paid.

[140:03] And time limited parking but then, as you go further from campus parking is free and unrestricted timelines and then using a few of the alleys for for loading as well. So you can see the breakdown the pie chart here that we, we have a higher percent of curves basic numeracy hill them and others other zones for loading, whether it be people or goods and then as well, because of the parkland at 6% used for for pregnant for the street closer. And then parking occupancy so we collected parking counts and tember of 2021 when we compare this historically the parking occupancy is higher than it was in 2020 during. The first year of coven, but it is lower than pre covert data so understanding the context and the evolution of demand for parking is really important. You can see here, so the blue so we've got polygons for off street parking and lines for on street parking.

[141:06] Anything coded as blue has between zero and 60% occupancy and then tl 60 to about 7575 to 85 is yellow and then anything over 85%. Is is shown in red here so, although we expect that parking demands will continue to go up as. folks are commuting more and going back to work more we we do not anticipate that parking demands will increase to what it was in in pre coated levels. But this is definitely something that we want to understand more and take the time to really compare pre covert data and do a little bit more analysis on. But we are seeing from this data that that we do have additional capacity and there's flexibility to reallocate where vehicles are being part. So, in line with with some of the backgrounds, that we just provided on amps and the goal of these efforts, we see this as a really great opportunity to change behavior and introduce changes to the curb.

[142:04] that are in line with with city goals and have this project lend support to how we we rethink about access and and mobility. And then, this kind of builds off of the previous conversation about can appreciate it, the thoughts on pilots. So as a part of this effort as Liz mentioned, we will be implementing pilot projects, this is a really great opportunity to collect before and after data and. test out some of our recommendations and inform our longer term recommendations so based off of the feedback that we heard through Community and stakeholder outreach we've. identified two potential pilot ideas at this point, the first is a gnc staging area, so this is a space designated for uber and lyft. To wait, either for request from a passenger or a place where passengers can go to pick up their uber and lyft this addresses the concern that we heard about.

[143:02] Safety and and passengers looking further uber's and let's pick up and drop off happening in the travel lane. People crew members and with cruising to look for their passengers or to wait for another request, so this is a. platform that's been used successfully in Denver and across the country. Where there's a geo fence created on the back end for this transmission network companies and provides a really clear connection for passengers as well as uber lyft drivers to find each other and a much safer and more efficient use of space for that as well. And then the next pilot idea we're going to slack stone, so this space would be allow for the use of a number of different curve uses currently so instead. of just having a passenger pickups zone, a goods loading zone or a 15 minute curbside pickup down. we're combining those three uses into one space acknowledgement demand for those three users might vary throughout the day, so this allows for a higher and better use of the curve.

[144:06] And just more clarity, instead of breaking down loading into passenger and goods loading, you can clumping that together, increases the intuitive NASA path the curb can be used. Okay. Thanks carly so just to wrap up before we open it up for discussion in terms of next steps we have a few more stops with. Planning board and Council over the next month or so we'll be looking to potentially explore these pilot projects identify design them and. Potentially influence implement them, you know really to learn about the impact of policy choices, and we would review any of those plans with you, before implementing and at the same time also starting to flesh out some of these options for our policies and for the program overall.

[145:15] So you may recall these were our key questions for you in the memo just to see if you have any additional feedback or questions about what we heard through our Community engagement effort and regarding the existing conditions, you know was there anything that jumped out at you. That we should really look at as we continue through this project process, and just as a bonus, if you have any reflections on the pilot projects and the approach for that that would be great to hear as well, so thank you so much, and i'll pause and. happy to hear from you. Thanks live and Chris and thank you for joining us tonight carly I thought it was it was neat to see the priorities based on the Community feedback.

[146:06] Supporting active modes of transportation scored well and then so that the place making things were in the middle of on the upper end and the private vehicle parking was was on the lower end so I felt that that. reflected the the goals that are tmp and so i'm hopeful that the outcomes of this study reflect that as well. Does anyone else on tab have any questions or feedback for the group said Kim. Taylor. Thanks Alex I had a couple of thoughts in different areas here when I was the reason I asked about the questionnaire results or a thing that jumped out at me with a question here results. When asked are these free form responses or not, was it did seem like a lot of these users were very sub divided in ways that I thought might be make more sense as bigger categories, which I think Carla hit on right at the end i'm talking about FLEX zones and so.

[147:10] I was looking at the slide that was saying, you know, do you want it to be a good loading zone score slightly lower than a passenger loading zone with both scored lower than short term curbside pickup. And I thought you know all of those things kind of function, the same way, for me, if i'm also on the street try to park my bike or you know use it whatever. I don't really care whether that person is loading goods or loading a passenger or loading, you know getting their food. As long as they move along within five minutes or so it's all kind of the same the clam. And so I would I would encourage that kind of broader chungking of of uses when you're thinking about flexible stuff. Bearing in mind some of it might happen at different times of day but i'm i'm hesitant to say like this is a section for tn seeds to operate versus, this is a section where fedex and ups and private delivery companies operate.

[148:05] But to try to like allocate sections of the of the curve space that that. You know all users in on very short term periods within pretty easily identifiable second segments of the work day or work week we would all reasonably want to be competing for the same small amount of space to allow them to kind of all share and let that be a bit of a. Sound salad bar for them, I suppose. I think that the parking occupancy stuff is fascinating and I wish I had had more time to think about it and look at it, because it's something that i've been asking for like since before Dom nausea was on the board for those of you who are long. Long in the tooth enough to remember him. But a few things jumped out at me on the parking occupancy slide for the downtown area and one of them. was about 17 street which we talked about earlier as part of the pmt and that removing on street parking was not feasible because of the needs for people in the area.

[149:07] Well, it looks like in one direction, and the northbound direction is pretty well occupied in the southbound direction there's minimal occupancy which tells me there's some possibly some. time of day, data collection bias in here that people who are coming into the area and just find something on the direction of travel, they happen to be in. Our parking but just to see like bread on one side of the street and blue, on the other side is free, is telling me we're not effectively managing parking on those streets i'm looking at 16th and 17th streets both south of. spruce or Pearl and then also what jumped out at me was 13th street or 14 street. being heavily underutilized and that's really good news I think for for the downtown station. expansion, this is we do actually have room and it's a good place to put.

[150:03] Bus loading zones, but the next block over on 13th street we don't have data and i'm curious about that one because that's been a long kind of thought target for making that a. pedestrian eyes to street because it's where you know the the there's a park on one side a couple of businesses that are really underutilized. The boulder museum of contemporary art is there, they don't really use that much parking, and so I feel like this data might might point to not necessarily. Part of the scope of this project, but it might be to think again have a really hard look at that block, in particular between arapahoe and Canyon of 13 street to become pedestrian eyes. Or at least two disincentive eyes on street parking I think that the parking utilization there's probably quite low, and so I was curious why there wasn't any data on that one.

[151:06] Really, I see you. yeah i'm not I don't know offhand i'd have to dig in. into that so little bit if you've got an answer go for it, otherwise I can look into it. yeah no we'll we'll just we'll check on that yeah there's interesting boundaries that we were working within but i'd like to i'd like to check on that. Okay, thanks for pointing that out. Alright, my last question then was, you know when Chris was talking about the project context and the interrelated goals Vision Zero the empty reduction in greenhouse gas reduction of mode shift. Those are definitely things that tab keeps trying to highlight and then, when you talk about what the purpose, the objectives of the Kurds curbside management is. None of those things are making it into the objectives of this project equity curves for people. customized for a variety of needs ease of use and understand decision making, clarity, possibly it goes into decision making, if we're talking about mode shift.

[152:04] But I would definitely like to see, and I think we've talked about this before i'm something more than just give me your ideas but. give me your ideas access allies for achieving these particular goals, not what would you like to see more or less of but in what ways, would you like to. change how we use xyz block xyz something in front of your business to better achieve our greenhouse gas goals or our mood shift goals. i've talked a little bit about that, before. And it was last thought on that one. merge shift diversity equity and inclusion I. You know, live, I really respect the work that you do in thinking ahead and giving people homework and giving people things to think about.

[153:00] But I wish that you would be able to constrain the thoughts more about what what you in particular, one is responding here on the survey or on these questions as opposed to how can you help us sort of. crowdsource a solution to a common problem to highlight a couple of things to achieve through this as opposed to just throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what's the most popular idea, because I do think that we have a responsibility to be. You know redirecting people's vision and and priorities towards bmt reduction in greenhouse gas reduction mode shift that kind of thing, so I just wanted to highlight that, again I wasn't able to make it to the last X values meeting I don't know how much you guys talked about it. But again, it just feels very open ended, and you know what what is everyone's idea is not necessarily the thing that we should be. grasping, for we should be asking for ideas toward a particular defined objective and we have enough information and existing city plans to have some outlines for those objectives.

[154:10] that's all thank you. Thanks to anyone else from tab have any questions see ryan's unmuted. Alex just real quick, I attended the meeting last week, so I did the deep dive so i'll spare any detail comments now, but just wanted to say, mainly live thanks to you and the team. That you did a nice nice job and maybe i'll just say two things that we talked about that so first on this on the question for tab um. Do you have any additional feedback or questions on the comedian gauge your key findings, I thought it was interesting that. I don't think I don't know if I saw the graph today, actually, but there was. A slight maybe a slight difference in in. In what he.

[155:02] desired state from from the from business owners versus employees and business owners were a little more vehicle motor vehicle centric and I just thought it was sort of an interesting. aspects and I could hypothesize and actually had a follow up call with rich one of the folks to understand it better so. Many case the larger number of employees seem to be more of the camp of the motor vehicle parking wasn't that big of an idea, but this is also something that that through TV and policies, we can. educate employers about not maybe not needing to be so relying on motor vehicles so it's just a reflection on. Your question number one, and then the second one is just them, I think that it that the nexus that he bikes as car replacements has it has an important place in this whole discussion with curb space. And I think one of them is better understanding how can you bikes be delivery vehicles for businesses, doing delivery and getting getting to know the.

[156:08] Business the local business case better and trying to figure out other ways we can better encourage you to get gifts give incentives for free bikes to do that. business owners and then, conversely, to the extent we're doing bike sharing a bike sharing any bike Rentals in the city, if we can start to provide cargo bikes and like larger format or bikes to have greater utility. To get butts in seats, so to speak, and use the term space as a way to make that accessible are actually visible on we're going to start to see the public trying these things and realize the magic of going shopping and an e bike and. You know, being being evangelists so i'm just being redundant with what I said last week, but I wanted to share that for. thanks for your great work. Thanks, can I just jump in real quick on that. Brian thanks for putting me on the bones, and I think that's partly what I was trying to say about like using curbside management to advance particular goals, but to actually.

[157:07] make it easier and more desirable and preferable to use particular devices other modes of transit that that's a really great example of how we might actually do it to advance mode shift. That so thanks for that that was that was a better way to say it than I did. till 20. Oh no I was just. draw that I was just going to add that I was really, really excited to see more bike. My bike and scooter parking I think that that's a huge. Plus and that it's needed and it will go hand in hand with what Tila and Ryan are saying you know I mean the more vehicle, the more. Mobility alternate mobility that we see out there, the more need will will have to have a police department.

[158:01] So yeah. Absolutely. Anything else from tab becky. yeah so quick things when I was, I was interested, also in the parking data set the relatively low utilization of some of the parking garages was pretty interesting for a space that's. You know, part of the city that's pretty valuable so i'm just interesting to see and create that data and I asked a question about these two pilot ideas I understand why they. The value of the of these two things i'm wondering why like how you got to these two relative to the other ideas in the list like what like why these two and not others or yeah what properties kind of bubbled up to this. yeah I can kick that off and then invite other TEAM members to add because we did brainstorm of several projects, and it was kind of. marrying some of the existing issues that we knew we wanted to address like safety congestion, etc, and not having enough.

[159:04] Loading zones and things like that, and looking at some of the. Pilots that were done in other cities and getting ideas there and again kind of looking for that marriage and also something that we think that we can implement fairly quickly in a pilot project for him to be able to. Experience and evaluate and learn from to support this effort, so we started with a longer list and have have ended up with with these two kind of through that process and I don't know if carly and Chris or anyone want to add to that, but. I Chris hagglund here I just said that in our stakeholder conversations you know these two in particular came to the forefront from our stakeholders. I think the TMC pickup and drop off is is important, I think a lot of people see a lot of unsafe behavior occurring with with that type of pickup and drop off not only unsafe behavior but also behavior that backs up traffic and causes travel delay.

[160:14] But the safety impact is was really a key thing and then I think you know, the way in which we've been adapting to cove ID and the way in which people are accessing goods and and picking up products. The need for additional loading zones and and the flexibility of those loading zones came to the forefront in our discussion with a lot of the stakeholders. And I think building a valid is points back McCann conversations behavior change takes a really long time and so. A lot of the great ideas that would be wonderful pilots, we would need a full year of implementation of that pilot to to really. see that the impacts of it and so thinking of what pilots, could we over just a few months begin to see the safety improvements, change your travel behavior on these ones really rose to the top and and what's feasible for.

[161:07] Quick implementation standpoint and also seeking city staff feedback from maintenance and available resources on the maintenance side was an important consideration. Okay, thanks yeah that's helpful so. This This can be done relatively relatively quickly, and then I imagined him like since you collected, a lot of this feedback could that be used them for future phases, to address some of the other top priorities that came out of the feedback but aren't going to be part of this pilot. Is that is, that is, that a thinking like what I mean by posing, for instance, like offering that people can select these other options from this like list of things and things they highlighted, but those are things that might pursue later on. Based on this feedback. So. The pilot projects are just a subset of some of the.

[162:01] Potential changes that would be part of the overall Program. yeah. Thank you. Thanks anything else from tab. not seeing anything well, thank you, Chris live and carly but looking forward to seeing how this this time progresses. Thank you for your time. And with that I think we'll move on to matters. First matters from staff to think we're going to. kick off with a an update on the doctor card to Program. messaging here in a muted. yeah. Thank you Alex can you hear me. Great and give me just a second to share my screen.

[163:14] Okay, great and so Hello tab and thanks for having me this evening, my name is Jean sansone and i'm a principal transportation planner with the city. And you've seen me several times on this topic, over the last several months, but for the benefit of our new tab Members, I just wanted to provide a little bit of context, before I jumped into our slides this evening. So, as you can see from the title Dr cobb Dr Cox is the region's metropolitan planning organization and they are responsible for the preparation of what we call the transportation improvement program or tip. And the tip is the primary mechanism by which federal transportation funds flow to local governments like the city of boulder. And the tip selection process is typically conducted every four years or so, and the city has successfully submitted projects for funding, since the program began in the 1990s, so, for example.

[164:12] To the projects that are currently under construction in our tip funded would be the north broadway reconstruction project. And the Colorado and 30th underpass project, so this evening i'm going to be sharing progress we've made towards identifying scoping and costing potential project applications for this next cycle of projects. So our proposed tip project list is is derived from the tmp and has been developed with quite a bit of guidance. From tab and what we've done is identified and prioritize projects for the upcoming two tips cycles. that are intended to advance the tmp as well as be competitive in terms of the doctor car tip application scoring criteria as you see, on the slide.

[165:04] And in addition to projects that are in support of Dr cogs metro vision plan and advanced improvements to the core arterial network and our regional transit our regional transit corridors. We are looking at projects that that holistically advanced the goals of the tmp as you see, on the right, that they are, they are creating a system that is safe equitable provide travel choices and support clean air and our climate commitment. So at a glance here is a map of the seven proposed tip projects that we would like to advance. And now i'm going to briefly walk through the general scope and funding for each of these projects, as well as share feedback we just received this afternoon from the doctor cog. boulder county sub Regional Forum staff committee and I know that that is a mouthful, but we did just have a very successful meeting with them and i'd also like to acknowledge and thank Ryan and Alex for attending that meeting.

[166:06] So, starting with the projects we'd like to submit for fiscal years. The 30th street preliminary design project proposes to conduct preliminary and final design for protected bicycle facilities in transit stop improvements on. On 30th street between arapahoe and iris or the diagonal Colorado 119. The project will develop and evaluate conceptual transportation design options to improve multimodal including pedestrian bicycle transit and vehicle travel along 30th. And will include preliminary engineering and cost estimates for these transportation improvements and i'm happy to share that this project was very well received from. The doctor cod boulder county sub Regional Forum staff committee this afternoon, and particularly the strength of the multimodal components of the projects and committee members offer that they think this will be a competitive project for funding.

[167:08] You know, one of the questions that were asked in this afternoon's meeting was about the design options that are under consideration and the criteria that we would use to evaluate those options. And as you all know, our response to that type of question is that that's exactly what will be addressing once the project commences. And here's the project, the Colorado 93 or broadway and table Mesa and broadway in region transit priority intersections that i'd like to provide an update on. Because we've pivoted a bit on this application so when you last saw. Our proposal, we were looking at a design only tip application, but we're now looking at a design and construction project based on information, we recently received from sita. I think Valerie alluded to that earlier and so just a little bit of context, he is updating their 10 year plan.

[168:01] It won't be fully adopted until probably July of this year, but early indications from si dot are that, as per the city of boulders request. They will likely be programming $1.5 million to fund design of these interviews intersection improvements as early as 2023 so that's what that that's potentially really good news. So with our tip application application, we would hope to use these si dot pre construction funds and limited local local funds as a match to the doctor coc tip funds to fully design and construct the project. The scope itself includes intersection improvements to provide transit priority at these intersections. And an analysis of general purpose link conversions to business access travel transit lanes between table Mesa and 18th street with lane reese draping and signage as feasible. So, if this tip application is successful, we would begin design in 2023 and potentially construction as soon as 2025.

[169:07] Our next project is the US 36 or 28 street West side multi use path between four mile Canyon creek bridge and violet. what's really exciting about this project is that it would complete the entire extent of the 28 treatments I use path from the south end of the city to the north end. It would construct a 10 foot wide bi directional concrete multi use path for bicyclists and pedestrians. On the West side of 36 and it will likely include installation of storm sewer improvements signage way fighting and bicycle parking and i'm going to pause because T Ly, see that your hand is up. Am I remembering was this project that four and a half million last time we talked about it. yeah that's a really good question and Tila several I shouldn't say several a few of these projects have we have increased the cost estimates for these projects based on more refined information and i'm gonna let me like Gary.

[170:11] that's almost. is almost double before I stumble over this i'm going to. hand this question over to Garrett. Yes, so thanks for the comment Tila and you're right this project did go up substantially we took another pass through and. recognize that some of the costs assumptions and i'll just before I get into the specifics of this individual project cost estimate. it's not unusual for our cost estimates to move around a bit as we look at the scope and we take a closer look at the details of the elements that comprise a cost estimate. And so, some of the elements that were in the prior cost estimate at some outdated. assumptions and also had some outdated unit costs numbers, and so we went back and we actually did quantity takeoffs which is.

[171:08] I guess, a term, for we actually went in and measured specific links and dimensions, on some of the key elements that had not been previously measured there, there were some just some general sort of. rule of thumb estimate placeholders that have been put in the prior estimate, so this is a more representative cost. And I think I don't want to take away from what what gene will say, but we heard feedback today that that's probably a pretty large ask of the tip. In terms of the overall pool of funds that's available and. results, we were question about the possibility of scaling this and that's something we can certainly do we could look at doing a project that goes to Jay and and stops there and. In fact, that segment might actually be more affordable the part of the reason this project is constantly.

[172:01] beyond just the cost of concrete multis path is that there are substantial drainage improvements if you've. Driven or bites along that stretch, you know there's a substantial drainage ditch and on the left side that we would need to put into a culvert. And storm sewer system and there's also some elevation challenges total graphically that we'd be the constructs and retaining walls that stretch going up to Jay might be a little more conducive to the budget situation in the stretch going north of there so. Okay, so help me out when you say up to Jay are down to Jay are like from where to where. So the images. Here reconsidering and you're thinking, maybe X something to Jay is better what's. Right so and that's not definitive that's just got that feedback this afternoon, but. So that that's one possibility, so that the image, you see, on the left side, those are the the stone art pieces right at the crossing it formal Canyon creek. About 100 feet north of these stones, is where the Multi use path merges into the southbound shoulder, and so what did they come from, right here and go up to Jay.

[173:05] As a painting next phase of work. Okay, thank you. Thank you Garrett, and you know I am I have nothing else to add that's exactly right, I think, stay tuned we will likely be be scaling this project just based on unlimited project funds for the region. Next project as Garrett previously covered much of this is the baseline enhanced transit stops in protected bike lane projects between 30th and foothills parkway. This project will construct multimodal enhancements to the baseline quarter and would include. Protected bike lane sauteing bus stops potentially bust up consolidation and intersection improvements and i'm also happy to report out that this project was also. Successful or was well received by the doctor cogs every DJ and staff committee and this afternoon, particularly the multimodal components and connections to communities further east along baseline so.

[174:08] So, thanks to Alex for bringing this up and elevating it to a an application and we look forward to moving it forward and coordinating with the p and P work. And this okay so i'm going to switch gears now to the longer range projects i'd mentioned that there were. There were two calls for projects and this next call would be for for the outer years and i'm going to describe the three projects that project applications that we're proposing to submit. So the West Colorado avenue multimodal improvement project between region and folsom is is really neat because it's going to complete the Western segment of the Colorado quarter project. With protected bike lanes transit lanes and a consolidated transit stop similar to the transit stops like at broadway and euclid that you would see for the flat iron flyer. adjacent to two main campus and the project will build out the multimodal complete street cross section of Colorado Ave as it was defined in the quarter study.

[175:08] And there's really neat is that it also continues the work that's currently underway at 28th and Colorado and 30th in Colorado to provide a uniform travel experience to the intersection with folsom. Next is the Colorado seven or arapahoe and 30th street multimodal intersection project. And this project proposes to construct raise protected bicycle lanes and wider sidewalks along 30th street and protected intersection where the pedestrians and bicyclists in vehicle facilities have designated and separate spaces from each other. And the intersection improvements will be designed to accommodate the future conversion of outside general purpose lands on arapaho to business access travel transit lanes. With the implementation of the Colorado seven beer tea and just as a reminder, this project will be get we'll begin preliminary design of this project, this year, and these tip tip dollars would help us advance project this project into construction.

[176:14] And last but not least, this project will car seven arapahoe avenue bridge replacement over over boulder creek would reconstruct the bridge over a boulder creek replacing to existing twin bridges. The existing westbound bridge was construct was constructed in 1938 and it's structurally deficient and the eastbound bridge was constructed in 1966. What this project gives us the opportunity to do is replace those twin bridges with a single span bridge that would safely carry the almost 30,000 vehicles that day that cross it, as well as the pedestrian and bicycle facilities. Along both sides of the bridge and connections to the boulder creek multi use path as envisioned in the east arapaho transportation plan, it would also accommodate the conversion of outside lanes to business access transit with the implementation of Colorado seven be your team.

[177:10] So those are our seven projects in a nutshell. So next steps, as I mentioned, we received some project feedback from the Dr Cox of regional staff committee this afternoon. And that was just verbal feedback in a meeting, but they also staff members also had the opportunity to provide written feedback. which we hope to receive in the coming days to also inform how to refine or fine tune these project applications. And then, as importantly, will be our Community engagement moving forward so i'm beginning rather soon we are developing a be heard builder questionnaire. Project videos it's pretty neat Nathan Pope, who you heard from earlier on our staff is creating. Little short two minute videos that describe each of the projects so. Like replacing what we would think of as a traditional open house, for you have boards in a meeting room and people could visit the various boards or projects that they're interested in.

[178:06] They can click on a video learn about a project and ask questions and provide feedback to us we're also going to be offering staff office hours throughout this period for people to to meet with us, one on one. And so, with that engagement and the feedback that we received, we will come back to tab next month with a recommendation and public hearing moving into a city council endorsement in mid May. So that's all I had for a presentation i'm happy to entertain any questions. Thanks Jim Garrett, I think my first question is about in May, will we be providing a recommendation, just for the first call for projects or will be regroup after that and then have another. Collaborative process where we provide feedback and we have another hearing later in the year for the later call for projects.

[179:05] yeah that's it it's our intent that we bring forward both calls for projects at one time, just to minimize the amount of. back and forth, that we would that we'd need to do between now and December so that's our intent. But I would just I would also caveat that with this could be very fluid because. We may end up in a situation where a call to project does not get funded and we determine that it might be more appropriate for a call for project or still appropriate and we want to move forward so. While we wouldn't have another public hearing per se, I do think that there are more conversations to be had through these processes with tab. Okay, as someone who's had a bit of exposure to this it it feels like the the first call products alone or a lot to digest and discuss. And I think I would have a preference that we provide a formal recommendation in May, for the first call and then commence the seconds effort to work out what the the seconds submit, at the end of the year will be.

[180:11] Thank you for that. And so Ryan, and I crashed, the party at the county today, and I think it, I think it was a success and we heard some some good feedback. I think Gary and gene one one thought on from from me, was it felt like some of the competitors in the county and the other jurisdictions. They relied upon the visuals that were included in their abstracts and came with some some talking points and at times it felt like we were lacking a little bit onyx. drumming up excitement or explaining the purpose of these projects. baseline, for example, we were, we were told by one person that it was they thought it was good score competitively and other said it was really cool. It felt like our competition was more excited about the projects than we were we mentioned bike improvements we mentioned transit improvements.

[181:03] They were pointing out the reduction and conflicts between transit and bikes and siding personal experience doing stuff like that. But we struggled to remember what bus operated on baseline they are talking about the regional nature of the bus and how the STOP consolidation can help improve transit recommendations. And I think they some of the other good feedback that maybe you alluded to, as. The ties into the county wide by can transit network, and then it was cool to hear that the counties thinking about doing a regional bike study and this might help support their efforts to. Have a dedicated bike route to lewisville and Lafayette and then with with 30th again we're just one person told us very competitive application other person said great projects for us trying to communicate the why we were we presented 30th as an important corridor. every quarter is important, I think Valerie did a great job earlier this evening really making the case of the experience and highlighting the things that are on the streets and why streets are important.

[182:08] and Bringing that sort of information when we're presenting either in the abstracts or in the presentations to. Our competition would be good to help with so limited very limited opportunities to really explain what and lie and having a little more polished materials would would be helpful and then yeah it didn't seem like the the 36 at the price point. Was as well received, there are also some questions about the crossing treatments that I think we would want to think through before. We move forward on a project like that, and one person asked questions about tying that facility in the neighborhood and our approach is to not actually have direct tie ins, but perhaps use violet avenue, and I think, given how.

[183:02] There aren't there's an unsafe bike way on violence or even sidewalks on. The majority of it that's not a I don't think that's a great strategy at this point in time, given the opportunities that the that the other projects present. Ryan, do you have anything else to add from from the meeting this morning, this afternoon. No, no that's comprehensive thanks Alex. cool. So. Does here's the other tab members have any feedback on the proposed or under consideration call number two projects which are baseline 3630. And then the the broadway transit improvements which we didn't have time. Earlier today, to get feedback from the committee, but I think those are the four that fat fat flag as potential earlier.

[184:00] Applications feel. Well, you I mean you heard me flinch at the Multi use path stuff jumping update and a half million dollars, and that was one of the two that I called out at last meeting my God that's really what we go forward, but then i'll feel it. that's maybe the best use of our stuff so I you know I always how that project evolves and I recognize staff is said it's going to evolve and. And i'm trying to imagine what the priority intersections is going to do so, I was kind of busy thinking like where is that intersection what does it look like now. i'm curious and I haven't looked at the county stuff that Alex that you sent to us earlier today so um but again to to improve for intersections here. For transit seems worthy, but what I was focusing on is the call for that 30th and arapahoe but you're just asking on call to So for me i'm just kind of flinching at the last on the multis path project they're.

[185:10] Bearing in mind, I moved here, partly because I love the Multi use paths. i'm a big fan of them, but i'm really not sure this is this is worth going to die on that hill for. Agreed, and he other thoughts on the so it feels like we could a little bit better define broadway and what all that entails, I have a little trouble picturing I sense a ton of opportunity. It seems like you've teed up some some funding partners and some stakeholders that also see that opportunity I think when you come back in May, having a better description of what exactly things would look like on the ground. would ensure that you get a lot of support on that project from us. thanks for that. So that quick clarification question.

[186:02] I think you said this gene visual make sure i'm understanding so there's I see these like pictures these like diagrams that look like plans, but they say preliminary design so i'm supposed to understand that that's just like a sample that's not the actual preliminary design. that's correct. they're typically very conceptual planning level designs or pictures. Thank you. mm hmm. And then, if there's nothing else on the projects that have been identified as potential cult to I think it'd be good to talk about call for, and I believe those projects are the arapaho bridge over boulder creek the Colorado Western segment adjacent to campus. As well as the. remind me the oh that 30th and arapahoe protected intersection.

[187:01] And I sense some confusion, perhaps needless confusion at our at our last meeting about the exact states of the bridge that were considering for a tip projects over boulder creek through this process i've learned a lot i've learned about bridge. They call it. The ratings. sufficiency ratings and as i've understood from Garrett bridges are scored from zero to 100 with 100 being good. Once they're below 50 they start getting concerning and it sounds like the state's brings funding to the table when they're in the 30s and 40s. And from the plaque on the bridge that the West round bridge which is on the North side of the street, obviously. The flag says it was built in 38 from what I found online that the south bridge which carries the eastbound traffic. was built in 66 as you alluded to, but was perhaps reconstructed as as recently as 1986 and it sounds like the westbound bridge has a sufficiency rating in the 30s.

[188:11] I think you've alluded telling us the score for the eastbound bridge i'm curious if that's something you could share with us now. Actually Alex I think I might have misspoke in a prior meeting the sufficiency rating on the westbound bridges actually 50.9. That you're not seeing that staff had. conveyed to me verbally that it was in the 30s and then, when they asked him to give me the report it's actually 50. I don't know what the sufficiency rating is on the eastbound bridge but i'm sure it's much higher I suspect that we would not need to totally reconstruct that that structure and that we would look to use as much of the existing. structure as possible and an add on to it.

[189:00] Okay, I found some online bridge reports from 2017 and, according to this report, the westbound bridge had sufficiency rating at 51.9 does that. Does that for you think you heard from si dot. yeah I actually have the I have a copy of the the westbound bridge inspection report I believe they expect them every two years, so I think i've got the one from 2020 or 2019 I can send that to you. Okay, look more importantly we're we're talking about in the context of a tip projects that eastbound bridge and I found a report from 2017 that showed us efficiency rating there of 74.4. Unless something seismic has happened. We were we were left with the wrong impression after last month hearing from tab members, some of the terms that were used were.

[190:02] let's see this project or replace a structurally deficient bridge, we were talking about loss of life you're talking about that, but do share your responsibility to avoid the loss of life. How replacing this bridge would really be central to the tmp principles of providing a safe network and hearing from a tab Member. They felt that we were a perfect replacing a deficient structure Erica was left under the impression that she had a responsibility to replace that efficient structure and talking to another member of staff after the meeting they were left with the impression that the. eastbound bridge had a sufficiency rating and the third. attempt, and what is particularly concerning to me are is the fact that some of the basic questions about this project that i've sent via email have gone unanswered.

[191:01] like remind me which bridge we're talking about i've not gotten a response to a question as simple as that, and during the last meeting Tila asked the question after we were told about loss of license life, and all this stuff is the bridge deficient. And the response was very unclear who dodge the question I don't have the specifics on it, I don't know if Gareth does, but I can tell you that see that would not be putting any money to it. If it wasn't at the top of the list for a placement, which is of course what see that is doing on the east and the west and direction that you lead us to believe that the eastbound bridge wasn't. Sufficient and when you're asked about that you didn't say anything and you didn't volunteer this information at any points you again went back and talked about. The quote bridges over 80 years old, talking about the sufficiency rating in the 30s it wouldn't be on see dots radar.

[192:05] Unless there were a serious problem here, and it wasn't until you're asked point blank do the structures have different sufficiency ratings and that's when we finally got a clear answer that no. The eastbound lanes the southern structure is in much better shape, so it seems like many people understandably were left with the wrong impression of what. tab and City Council would be asked to support in the form of a tip project that addresses the southern bridge. And it seems it misled not only members of tab but, but others on staff and something that could have been. When you finally press he came clean, but at no point did you volunteer the relevant information very good. um so Alex, thank you for flagging that I can't I don't have any information in the here and now, but what I will do is follow the staff and then circle back around with here.

[193:09] I think that trying to solve this in real time right now isn't productive for any of us, but I will talk with the team and find out what it happened. fix it that's that's understandable. I probably would have trusted staff on this, if I hadn't been been misled before and seeing the high price associated with this location, I went out and just looked at it for myself and that that was the giveaway. This is something that i've spoken about with with members of tab members of the community of a flag for some Members of Council and the city manager's office. And so I would appreciate you letting us know what you find and and we can we can follow up with those those groups as well. And between the complications of this project, the potential opportunities to value engineer the intersection at arapahoe and 30th.

[194:03] I think it would be good to just get the call two projects squared away, and then we will have time to get to the bottom of what's going on on these projects and see if it'll be worth trying to come up with some some more cost effective ones for for actual problems. Alex I just want to ask one more question on this this particular project that you flagged and you know and listening to Jean I believe she said, this project would allow us to replace. Both segments of the bridge. With the single span does that indicate we're building it as a different something or other so let's let's say the westbound leg is deficient or weak are in need of repair, are you saying that we will get a stronger single bread, instead of two separate bridges out of this project. Oh, that looks like carolyn Sir.

[195:01] Thanks, yes, I will respect what Erika conveyed Alex that will will follow up and get more information, but I did want to say. I think, ultimately, I need to do a better job communicating information I it does me no good to misrepresent or to try to mislead you I. My full desires to be as transparent in this as possible, if you all have you as my partner and I i'm not trying to mislead anyone, so please understand. That if i've missed communicated something that's my fault and I apologize for that and and I just want to work with you. To make sure we get these projects right, so I appreciate all this input in this feedback to answer your question the the thought was that. The with the eastbound bridge being in better shape that we could replace the westbound and add on to it to make it a single bridge without, as you know, today there's an opening between the westbound and the eastbound bridges.

[196:00] So we would look to add into to just close that whole thing off and to make it a single structure over the creek path. Okay, thanks Garrett um in light of the discussion tonight I definitely support alex's suggested that we only deal with call to. And sort of table feedback on call for for now if that's acceptable staff, but although but i'm also feeling uncomfortable with proceeding with call for particularly with two new board members, you know, is the first time they're looking at this and thinking about it. It feels like because of our you know working to make things not fire drills but to plan ahead that we have a little bit of time. To be more thoughtful about call for if that's acceptable to staff, I would support that approach.

[197:01] Great, thank you for that. Thank you. Oh, my last question sorry it wasn't no other questions. What costs $5 million for on surface treatments and arapahoe and 30th. I mean we built we built an underpass under foothills highway a couple years ago for six and a half million what's what's 5 million for that. it's right away acquisition. Okay. I mean we're so the design that we're basing our estimate from 30th quarter or study assumes. That will need right away acquisition on the southeast quadrant that there's there's insufficient right away to accommodate the protection that's presented in the quarter study, and so we would need time and money to acquire the right away to. advance the design, as it stands in that preliminary are in the quarter design.

[198:04] Okay. it's not the same, or would that be the standard for Ivan case about the region, both the West Colorado. between regions full songs it's a really it's about what the 10th of a mile and it's about $3 million for that distance so is that right away, or what is this what's the cluster over there. There would be right of way elements as particularly at the intersection on the North side of Regent and Colorado that we would need to incorporate into that project. Is that where a lot of the cost comes from where they're from other aspects of this. So written right away as a substantial part of that cost, but then. We, we would need them to move some of the curb line potentially.

[199:00] On segments that would also had to some of the costs on the project and then. The transit stop amenities, we had some assumptions in there about the amenities, of what would go into that stuff because we're thinking, it would be something comparable to the broadway euclid stop. On the southbound side of broadway. OK. and move the curb line, does that mean like widen the curve or widen the road or which way is that movement. yeah moving the curve, from where it is today to accommodate the rays protected bike lane. Okay, thank you. Go back to the 30th and arapahoe do you have a sense of the 5 million what share of that is capital and what share of that would be the right of way acquisition. I don't have that right now Alex, but I can get that to you.

[200:02] Okay, I think that would be that'd be helpful and as Ryan, and I have discussed with you all and I started talking to some Council members. It seems like we could save a lot of space and reduce the footprint of that project if we were to forego the double left turn lanes for all of the approaches. And i'm sensing a lot of support of we could spend 5 million here and do preserve auto capacity not pretty. improve things all that much for walking biking and transit and nothing else. Or we can improve things for walking and biking here and have a bunch of money left over to continue those improvements for our tmp priority somewhere else, and so. Just be prepared for a conversation, certainly with tab and possibly with the Community and Council on on the trade offs that are inherent with with that location on the right boy. All right, I want item, I would add Alex is because it's intersects with state highway seven see that would also need to be a stakeholder that's a part of that conversation about what that would look like in terms of intersection operation.

[201:12] yeah absolutely, hopefully with all of the wonders that the arapaho brt will provide we won't need the devil left from our walkable by couple 30th street on to the regional brt on arapahoe. I think we can plan to keep things the same and we will keep seeing the same results, or we can plan to succeed. and planning for success here looks like an intersection and only needs to move as many cars as rtmp goals aspire to move. And the byproduct product of that is additional funding that we can we can take and carry that momentum elsewhere in town so yeah i'd be prepared for that and appreciate whatever you can play. Okay, any other tip feedback for tonight's.

[202:03] If not, we will be having a public hearing about this at our meeting next month as steph alluded to, and then Council, and I think these are these are due on the 26th of June and looking forward to see what we can we can accomplish with this, so thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Does city staff have any other matters for tonight. one. I feel compelled to I guess like this, and so forth, one of the things that we are a staff and then as direction by both Council and the city manager is to bring forward and engage. In with boards and commissions and in terms of racial discrimination diversity equity and inclusion and one of the things that we mouse to bring before the board and hopefully at your retreat.

[203:09] Are the kinds of framing and behaviors that we would hope as a city, to be able to demonstrate in terms of providing a welcoming and constructively engaging environment of civil discourse that respects. All voices in the Community and in the room, so I just wanted to flag that, because this is relatively new information that came out this past Friday evening, so thank you. Thanks Erica. that's something that. To and I have discussed incorporating other treatments certainly something that will carve out sufficient time. So if you have an idea of how much how much time you'd like for that, please, please let me know and we'll we'll work together day if that nature and. With that we'll move to matters from the Board and the main thing i'm seeing on, there is the tab retreat, which we have scheduled for two weeks from tonight same time same place.

[204:11] Virtual format, starting at 6pm. Erica do you know if we'll have a facilitator for that. i've asked Brenda if she was able to be there and i'm waiting to hear back, oh no more tomorrow, and let me know. Okay, but appreciate that and. In recent days, to has put together an agenda further retreats. And i'll just run through some of the things on there now and then would welcome any tap feedback to get a sense of what all we want to do there. The first thing would be getting to know you activity and identifying some of our individual goals that we hope to work on in our tap capacity in the coming year. Then, a review of all of the relevant sections of the city Charter and work to either as a refresher or an introduction.

[205:08] discuss the responsibilities and limitations of tab members in the board and then review the letter that we sent to the previous tab sense to to counsel at for their most recent Council retreat. Erica we've carved out some time for equity and diversity framework and discussion 30 minutes on there, let me know if you think you want more than that will be happy to accommodate that. And then I don't have to few rounds by Erica, but we think it would be beneficial to hear from from you all, what what what's in the work plan. On your end I think it's it's helpful to know what's your what's your working on, so that we can support you and not go too far astray. And then, after hearing that we can then work to refine our individual goals and identify some that we were all supportive of so try to get down to a manageable number of goals the tab can focus on that are then.

[206:08] In alignment with with what the city staff working on, so we can try to be as supportive as possible and then. Tila has prepared some draft policies and procedures for for the board to if that's something that you would like us to consider adopting. If you want to say something about it tonight, or just send out the the trap, you have to two board members, and we can review them. that's potentially yeah so so this came up sort of after the last retreat. And I and Erica and natalie and city attorney's office kind of worked some boards have policies and procedures some do not. Apparently about 20 plus years ago city attorney's office then drafted some working policies and procedures for tab that were not adopted.

[207:07] So we we played with those and fiddled with them a bit to sort of try to resolve some existing then existing issues and possibly recurring issues. about how we how tab manages this agenda introduces new topics outside of the the usual framework with with the Director in our in our agenda, setting meetings. And we kind of had it as a thing to think about for about three or four different tab meetings before I said we're not getting anywhere on here let's just table it till the retreat. So that's the that's the background for that, but there has been, you know some work by the you know by me and deputy director director and city attorney's office all current staff. To kind of finalize that stuff so i'm happy to send that around it, you know if we want to put that on the tab agenda.

[208:03] You Alex have expressed the opinion that maybe maybe we've worked past these issues and we don't need something formal that's certainly a legitimate thing to do, and so that's absolutely. A decision that tab can make, but I was just trying to follow through on a commitment that we had made somewhere around July or August of last year, saying. that this was something on the agenda on our radar but that we weren't capable of picking up and handling in the course of a regular tab getting it would be more appropriate for the retreat so that's that's the reason it would be on there now. yeah I appreciate all the work you've done on that and the conversations that have had, I think, just the conversations have been somewhat productive. The The next thing on the draft agenda is a discussion of ethics candor and transparency, which is something that i've suggested. And I think it I would find it beneficial to have a conversation about what I think are some of the underlying causes of tension between tab and staff.

[209:05] And if we could have a more frank conversation about that, outside of a more formal meeting. At that point, I might be able to be more bought into policies and procedures, and I think we might even be able to refine those even further. So, at the very least, I would i'm going to propose that we swap those things on the agenda, and perhaps at the end of that conversation we can we can figure out how we want to proceed if it's an immediate. struck vote on if get a sense of people if people support them or not, or if we want to continue to refine those. So, to review a bit of getting to know one another talking about priorities the equity and diversity framework hearing from staff what they're focused on. figuring out how we can support those with a manageable number of objectives of our own and then getting on to some of the more procedural.

[210:03] Matters that that we've talked about in recent years. Is there are there any other items that people are would hope to get out of this or anything else you want to get a retreat, I feel, like every tree looks a little different. don't have any of them have been considered smashing successes so we're always open to suggestions and new ideas and and little welcome anything, including from, especially the new members. I just wanted to chime in to say we. I think, at our last agenda setting meeting Alex and staff we talked about having a separate you know secondary meeting up coming up to the retreat, and so I expect that that you. And Erica and Valerie and whoever else is going to be involved in the retreat and possibly Ryan, are going to be, you know hammering out the details of the. draft of the agenda, then, so I just felt a responsibility to like pass it off to you as the presumptive incoming chair, but I i'll leave it to you, I have nothing further to add.

[211:10] And i'm comfortable with wherever wherever it lands, I just wanted to give you something to work with, but i'm perfectly comfortable handing it off to you and Ryan and Erica and Valerie and whoever else on staff needs to to weigh in on it. I appreciate that without your workout have been very helpful to me. Oh just wait till the retreat comes haha. will take care of it. Okay. not seeing any any suggestion so i'll work with Erica and hopefully older her facilitators and we'll put together an agenda or send that out well in advance, so you have a sense of what we're talking about a couple weeks. Now to open board comments for the new Members, this is where we often report back from any of the committee's that were appointed to which you'll be likely.

[212:04] end up on something like access allies were chillin Ryan go to additional meetings outside of our formal board meetings to meet with the curbside management or we just shared a general thoughts questions ideas. Try to keep things relatively brief, especially as the hour of the day, gets late so right, I think you mentioned that you had something for comment. yeah and I had the hardest time being brief when when it's late but anyway um I do have something i'd like to say a few words on and it's it's the IPCC report that came out last week and the message that it has for us about transportation. and transportation is a really important part of this body of work, and I think we should have something about this on the record. So i'm just gonna i'm going to say a few words, and we can leave it at that, or come back to it but.

[213:02] i'll just proceed so as folks might remember in 2019 City Council declared a climate emergency that was two years ago, three years ago. And IPCC gives us an update, which says, the problem is got worse and it's even more important to be doing bold and brave things with around transportation. Documents few thousand pages long, so you know, I think, very few people have looked at this thoroughly i've gone through it, to some extent and. i've got seven takeaways that i'd like to share, and you know this is just me but I thought. To enter something like this into the preceding year would give us a chance for tab staff for others to to correct or improve it and give us a starting point for some of the things we might talk about a retreat or onwards and so here i'll go, and this is. i'll play i'll set it up few stats, but this is mostly just paraphrase and using shorthand, and so this is, this is what is it CC say on on transportation for us.

[214:06] Some findings first find it worth the edge of a cliff and stepping back means transforming transformation, but we have to reduce sorry climate pollution, as the people around 2025 and then rapidly decline transportation is one of the top or problem areas in terms of sectors. Finding number two we, and this is, this is my paraphrase we were in a doom loop of car dependence which is making climate pollution worse is killing us and confronting the problem is essential for solving climate change, and if we do it, it will create abundance. Our transportation system is organized around car dependence, as a result of self reinforcing policy choices. This is a condition that is multiplying the impacts of climate pollution from cars, and it is really hurting us in terms of health, equity and affordability. they're finding the head the headline on what is most important to decarbonize around transportation is mobility mobility accessibility.

[215:06] IPCC This, I think this might be a great quote but cities can reduce their transport related fuel consumption by around 25% by attending to mobility systems. it's mostly a quote and specifically through compact land use and the provision of less car dependent transportation infrastructure, these are the strong forces um but The thing is, we need to work. We need to apply packages of policies together there's no one single policy that does it, and many of the policies we do need. are critical but on their own, they don't they don't say much, and I am just i'm thinking of we had. We met with a Council last June, and there was some discussion about parking by itself once all car dependence and there was sort of like it therefore let's move off, but. that's an example of an other have a category of a policy that that's by itself won't fix problem but it's, but it is, it is important for it.

[216:04] Okay, for finding and I think I don't know much more here i'm a transportation electrification is necessary but not sufficient to decarbonize transportation and we need electrification. to accelerate in a way that's consistent with mochas. electrification is happening, the fastest in America, mobility and public transit um it's not happening fast enough of that appeals and auto makers any help is speeding up, but even if with widespread ED is avoiding urban sprawl is considered a necessary condition for decarbonize. By Nick six leadership by local governments is crucial, cities are critical for Climate Action i'm in part because urban areas, generate the majority of the missions. These missions are rising and the centers of local government, is where we will get will get the the strongest actually and i'll just kind of scroll here if you're quickly and mobile Stephen.

[217:03] Colbert 19 one of the bright spots in some ways, is that it demonstrated that excuse me, the transformative value of telecommuting. and using a bike bike and pedestrian infrastructure expansion. And finally, on cities cities have equal important tools for transportation and we can't do transportation climate action without cities Oh, this is the firefighter thing on that we, most importantly, need a strategic change model. We can't do city translation climate action on a project by project or even a policy by policy basis, we need a concerted and strategic package of policies him debt. Tackling cardenas and then the final thing finding seven is that this IPCC report, for the first time has a section on demand and social sciences are our. has been the last thing that IPCC has been able, that makes sense of but if somebody just most important and so you have a whole section talking about how you have not.

[218:07] In the climate science arena understood what to do that demand but there's now an acknowledgement this body that we've got to get more focused on. To produce products which are being produced in an excess cause of kind of pollution, and that is true, nowhere probably more so than. The industry which is as two to 410 cars that cost the large server incomes are part 90% of the time. And when they are operating for local trips, which is one of the half them that they're operating. Their operating at 10 or hundred or 1000 times multiple of energy use that you could get otherwise So what we have is a system of engineered subsidized card pendants. um so thanks for for bearing with us, but I thought it would be important to get that least entered into a record that this is something that is. The findings of our of our climate scientist, and I think, as far as going forward.

[219:03] One i'm sure others have things to add to this and correct probably and we'd love to invite the opportunity for us to do that in the right forum. And then, secondly, to talk about how we can incorporate this into our work, both in terms of. Transportation related commitments that we're going to hold city accountable to, and also with respect to pursuing policies and decisions that are based on the kinds of change models that IPCC says are really important for transportation. So we can I can just i'm done, we can anybody wants to respond to any of that fixing anything I said it cannot always. Thanks Ryan now is appreciate the perspective and insights that i'm not always exposed to elsewhere. You keep mentioning change model, I think, as we go into our retreat, we can sort of think of some of the overarching things that can become a part of the the suite of strategies that we use within transportation.

[220:00] To address the the emergency, we have before us. yeah. yeah I also felt like this was a particularly timely, I mean Brian I know you felt like went on long, but it was great and really timely. and topical as we're trying to think of like what are our big picture and long term goals, because, as several of us have pointed out, and Rebecca, in particular in her application to death, pointed out. Our goals are not attainable on the on the on the track that we're on our goals are either unrealistic, or we have to make some real big changes and that, I think, is something that the Community is not hearing. And and needs to hear and to have it distilled really well that way through you know, an international panel, the people who've been thinking about it for decades is is a phenomenal place to start, so thank you for that. Absolutely any other matters from the board for tonight.

[221:03] Seeing. No. Next is feature agenda topics in my experience May, June, usually July are the busiest times of the year for us. Is when we review and approve the ci P, which is transportations budget, which has been passed on to counsel, in the form of a recommendation that they work into the city wide budget and that's time consuming and then with. The tip discussions that are ongoing and usually there's only one tip cycle every few years, this year we have to so between those two things. Those those likely heat up a lot of the next couple of months if anyone has any future agenda topics, you can share them to now or already melon to Ryan, and we can work them into the agenda when we need to set up feel. Well, as you know, as a raised in. February and March I think i'm going to raise again now, I do think there's value in having the police department come more frequently and I still don't see it on the.

[222:12] Upcoming agenda, I recognize they're not going to have full details, but I think there's some value in having some more regular check ins with our police department, particularly given. sort of the flavor of public messaging i've seen around some of these critical and you know high injury or vitality crashes were saying I don't think they're really drinking, the same Kool aid we are. we'll keep that in mind when we set the agenda with staff and will work to get an understanding of what the changes that the that the police department and how that might impact the the communications or the presence that they have us but. Okay, thank you. If your. house, can I just put one plugin for winter snow and ice maintenance, so this is probably the last month we're going to have until there's no snow to remind us.

[223:01] That we talked about the idea of having strategic session for tab on how do we think about strategy and priorities for for snow and ice removal. what's getting left off, and what would it take to do more comprehensive job on like the residential bike racer green streets to get that done on a more automatic basis or just have a conversation about that. In my opinion, utilization of our by quiz and especially the Multi use pathways is totally fine off in a winner and it's happening because it's for last mile issue. Yesterday, political and budget considerations, but I think it's definitely where should you focus so just want to put the last plug in here for the snow melts that i'm very interested in taking that on at some point before the next the next where. yeah we can talk about. That with staff, and I think. Typically, they do an annual assessment of the previous winter and so get a sense of if that's already in the works and it wouldn't that might be coming our way but yeah we can can talk about that. If there are no other future agenda topics i'll gladly entertain a motion to adjourn.

[224:07] And then have to turn. hey second. cool well we'll see all of you, and a couple weeks and tap members be be thinking about what some of your priorities are for the year to come and with that will take a boat to adjourn. welcome new kids will see you two weeks. good night everyone, thank you. Thanks Alex congratulations thanks Ryan congratulations yeah. thanks you guys.